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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=My Love Lies BleedingWild East|rating=34.5
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|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible move to male vampiresNorwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, who all want and so Ronny finds himself trying to use her settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to start their own vampire familiesmusic constantly, she and has always dreamed of being a prophecy looming over her headrapper. But now, in this new school, one that states his teacher encourages him to be part of a female Drake vampire will overthrow poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the current ruler to become Queen power of the Vampirescreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>0241645441
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Markus ZusakJenny Valentine|title=Fighting Ruben WolfeUs in the Before and After
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|summary=The Wolfe family Elk and Mab are only just getting by. Times are hard for Cameron and his older brother Ruben. Their father has been injured at work and best friends, or more than that even though he's mostly recovered now, he's finding it hard to get jobs and the ultimate emasculation of the dole their friendship is looming ever nearera once in a lifetime connection. Older brother Steve has ambitions and he can They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't wait to get out of each other's contact details at the housetime. Sister Sarah is drinking too much But then chance brings them back together, and getting a tarty reputation at schoolthey are inseparable. Their mother's fighting to hold things together Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, but it's taking a heavy toll. Cameron and Rube can't even manage to win a bet at the dog track - even when now they get a policeman to put it on for themmust work through their grief, and their friendship, together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862309574</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John WardMax Boucherat|title=The Comet's ChildLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Fin is rescued from his remote forest home by Ragg, We meet Lori on the first man he has ever encounteredevening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Having such What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a sheltered childhood blanket fort, she has equipped Fin with one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the speech and education of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a noblemanhit in Lori's son but little idea about the real world. Other than relying But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on his instincts her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and resourcefulnessnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Fin and her safe place in the game has no way of knowing who to trustbeen doctored – well, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Ragg.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerRachel Greenlaw|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back to the town in which he was born because his mother and sister, archaeologists, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdose. Emlyn is quiet Compass and shy, a bit geeky, and lonely. Maxine is lonely too, but she'd never admit it. She's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tonya Hurley |title=GhostgirlBlade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She has spent the entire summer break transforming herself to try and fit in with the 'in' crowd all in an attempt to try and attract I can hear the attention song of Damen, a popular and handsome jockthe sea. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, in a moment The call of tragic bad luckthe deep, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone the answering beat in a classroom, and diesmy heart. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C and Kristin Cast Harry Allen|title=Tempted (House Children of Night)the Sun|rating=35
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|summary=Last time we left Zoey, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she'd just banished Kalonais a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, an ancient fallen immortalso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, from looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Tulsa House meagre rations of Night, along with evil High Priestess Neferet. Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanity, but Stark, second ever Red Vampire, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erik, but she's re-Imprinted with Human, Heath, rice and Stark had pledged a Warrior's Oath to herkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodAlexia Casale|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=To startIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, I have to cover but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the ground middle of the mythology of this seriesa dance performance that was going to change her life. HumansBut she comes back fighting, vampires and werewolves all live in this worlddesperate to avoid the pity stares, and both species of desperate to get back to a life that'the other' have people halfway turneds as normal as she can possibly manage. Vampires and werewolves arenMeanwhile there't exactly the sort s a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to mix with each other - one liking try to spill bloodsort out, and just the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell itday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. In a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend So even though she can become semi-wolf in a shape-changing way't dance anymore, and might she's tending be able to the vampire side of things. She's also discovered a very strong threat against sing her life.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantSimon Fox|title=HungerDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Late one night Graham Blake is late 19th century Americaback from his shift on the force, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the sternand then suddenly rings Archie, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parentsdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, who were also employed by and join him on the doctorrun. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service They get together, but barely begin to smell the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day whiff of Southern trains when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor father is arrested, leaving Archie on the twin corpses of late express to Brighton, toting a young girl tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on herbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Delaney Lex Croucher|title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary='Warning: Not Who knew that what I really needed to be read after darkright now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories''it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and on the inside flapArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'... The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamelymuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, thoughyou see, is in love with a story about a young Spook Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a sort boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of monster-hunter) who falls falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a witch and is forced way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes to stay and exhibits live a taste for the neighbor-children.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=WakePromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and studying hard for collegemurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She's also working lots Each, seemingly, has a grudge of hours some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way time of resourceshis murder. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far But who killed him, and why, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in if any of the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaclyn Moriarty 1919635017|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
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|summary=Listen TaylorSolomon Klyne isn's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing familyt a bad lad, with all so why is he running around London committing a series of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to work on the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'Zing Family Secret'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale of life, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Different for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=I shall start with Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a word standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of advicefour with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. When youAs they're being hounded by all fired up, straining at the leash only a circus mastersingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a magiciansecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the soul of a tiger thatladder headed by 's contained in a tigerexperienced's egg , but whether that's contained set in the brain of your teddy bearstone, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make he can't be sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angelAnd that's efforts will involve you entering a dream world mostly because of flight who he's been having the relationship and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to helpsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Kate1800901232|title=FallenStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=A 17 Twelve-year -old girl at Hanh wanted to be a new school meets fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a mysterious job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and impossibly goodHanh was on the mini-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn bus toHanoi. He seems determined Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to either ignore her or be outright rude work in a shop, they were to her, until he saves her life, work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the two of artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer? It's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similaritiesquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsPatrice Lawrence|title=King LearNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in AlaskaBrave. She loves Charlene, the ice 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and the wilderness readers both. Kicked out of her remote home multiple homes and schools, she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing s fostering with her peers a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and enjoying college and home comforts back has taken up residence in Fairbanks. However, things arenher son Blake't all rosy. Cassies old room while he's mother died when she was just at uni. Such a baby and she can't help feeling tempestuous personality may be in need of a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A J Healy|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's creation of one such item is part of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be plot here, as Charlene is a gang wonder knitter, and is making something full of heroic detectives charged love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with rescuing EVERYTHING from destructionno more. Not just the planetWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, or the solar systemand then force people to give her two days off school, or even the galaxywhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going exactly happens is not for me to cause this destructionsay, or when, but he only to remark how sharp and his friends and their ship seem to pointy those knitting needles can be the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill them..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonAnn Sei Lin|title=The Battle of the SunRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in yearsthe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Her capital city However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a busyCrafter like him, bustling place. Boats fill someone with the river and people fill power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the streetsEmpire. Jack He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is happy all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because it's his birthday and his present the Midori is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's destroyed by a ''licking and monstrous paper spirit known as a running shikigami, and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the air and Orihime, a tail wagging sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog whole world of delight''. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Abby McDonaldMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Popularity RulesWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novelMeet Fitz, but a brief browse young Scottish lad full of frustration at the juvenile titlehimself. Lockdown is only just over, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised languagehe should be free to do what he wants, music scene setting to go where he wants and media heroine are aspirational stuff with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when you're stuck in the pre-scene yearshe talks to his best friend, Cassie. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a They were half stars based on its appeal as of a girlie book. That saiddesultory school band, I'm well over eighteen, read but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the story avidly, and enjoyed enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the ironyearth. So well Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a donedeal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithTori Bovalino|title=Furnace: Death SentenceThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for a murder he certainly didnWorking all summer in her boarding school't do, the lad s library is given life (of a kind) in the Furnace, last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a literal hellhole of request for over a private prison, buried a mile under Englandhundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's a vicious existence, with tribal gangs among the inmatesheadmaster, and worse on the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and there are mutateddeliver such a large request, feral creatures Tess sticks post-it notes on each of all kinds collectively called rats. After two previous the books of failed break-outs, Alex is under scribbled with the knife ugliest insults she can think of the warden, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims They're never meant to remake reach him, with medicineof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashingthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, as one of his ownif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyPhilip Reeve|title=Tales Utterly Dark and the Face of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthDeep|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Young Robert In a word, rich. There is put certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a train back peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to school by his stepmotherkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. It's The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the first journey heHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's made on his own. It turns foundling daughter, who washed up out to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imaginedthe sea one day eleven years ago. The train stalls at But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the mouth world of a tunnel and while the other passengers sleep through the waitprotecting their island, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a differencelike it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Gris GrimlyTom de Freston|title=Tales of Death Julia and Dementiathe Shark|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Wow! What Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poesummer, master in the far NE of the gothic horror short storyScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and Gris Grimlythat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, outstanding illustratorwhich is his specialist thing, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Poe's ''Tales of Death And Julia, well, she will be homesick and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this editionalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayJonathan Stroud|title=The HollowOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Abbey's best friendScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Kristenrejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, disappears robbing banks and is assumed dead, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left to talk shooting other outlaws tokeep herself alive. Refusing to believe that Kristen is really goneBut then she meets Albert Browne, while struggling to come to terms a dark boy with life on her own, Abbey meets the dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious Caspianmilitiamen hunting them down, a young man who appears they plan to flee to be the perfect gentlemanmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, showering her with handthey must brave man-crafted gifts eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and words of wisdom within weeks all the horrors of meeting her. But beneath those piercing green eyes and softpost-spoken manner, Caspian has secrets of his own. Hoping apocalyptic society to uncover thosereach the Free Isles, and determined to find out what really happened to her best friend, Abbey begins to question her sanity, as the truth proves but will they be any more frightening accepted there than she thought.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1406394815
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