Here are some of the recent teenage books we have enjoyed, if you've read them too you can add your own reviews.
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Wake
By Lisa McMann
Since childhood Janie Hannegan has been sucked into other people's dreams.
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If I Stay
By Gayle Forman
Mia has everything going for her - a happy, eccentric family; a cool boyfriend and an audition at the prestigious Juilliard music school.
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Bright Girls
By Clare Chambers
Sensible Robyn and glamorous Rachel Stenning are staying with their unreliable Auntie Jackie in Brighton.
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Killing God
By Kevin Brooks
Award winner Brooks’ previous novels for young adults have led us to expect the unexpected.
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Tales From Outer Suburbia
By Shaun Tan
This beautifully illustrated book of short stories, explores the unexpected and fantastical situations that occur behind an average suburban façade.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By Sherman Alexie
Arnold is from a long line of Spokane Indians living on a reservation.
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Chains
By Laurie Halse Anderson
Set in New York during the American Revolution, Chains tells the story of Isabel and her sister Ruth, sold into slavery to the wealthy, Loyalist, Lockton family.
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Where the Streets Had a Name
By Randa AbdelFattah
Hayaat lives in the West Bank after her family were driven from their land by Israeli settlers.
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Inside Out: Children's Poets Discuss their Work
By JonArno Lawson
24 poets from around the English speaking world provide a commentary on their work, in this fascinating and immensely useful project.
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The Ask and the Answer
By Patrick Ness
The Ask and The Answer immediately launches the reader back to the point at which The Knife of Never Letting Go reached its nightmarish end.
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The Knife of Never Letting Go
By Patrick Ness
Winner of the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize
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The Ant Colony
By Jenny Valentine
Valentine’s novels are noted for her depiction of unexpected intergenerational relationships.
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Pimpernelles: The Pale Assassin
By Patricia Elliot
Eugenie de Boncoeur is an 18th century teenage airhead, devoted to Parisian fashion, marshmallows and romance.
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Solitaire
By Bernard Ashley
When a luxury cruiser is bombed off war-torn East Africa, there is only one survivor, a boy washed up on a lonely island.
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Bloodchild
By Tim Bowler
Fifteen year old Will regains consciousness after an accident he can't remember.
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Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
By Tony Lee
Robin Hood: a living legend. His real life and true identity may have been shrouded in mystery for over 800 years but the essence of the man has never died.
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Heriot
By Margaret Mahy
Heriot Tarbas has always been a troubled child but whether he causes, or attracts, trouble is unclear.
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Tender Morsels
By Margo Lanagan
When rape and abuse make life in the real world intolerable for Liga, she is granted refuge in an alternate reality where she is able to raise her daughters in peace and safety.
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The Medusa Project: The Set-up
By Sophie McKenzie
It takes a while for Nico to realise that the mayhem of a school assembly interrupted by gusting winds and flying furniture is down to his newly emerging powers of telekinesis...
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Ausländer
By Paul Dowswell
Ausländer gives a fascinating insight into life in Berlin during World War II – a perspective not as frequently portrayed in fiction. The closing chapters are especially gripping and will keep read...
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Creature of the Night
By Kate Thompson
A gripping novel which intertwines the earthly and the eerie.
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Pastworld
By Ian Beck
Welcome to Pastword, the greatest theme park in history, recreating Victorian London.
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Double Cross
By Malorie Blackman
This is the very welcome fourth novel in Blackman's award-winning Noughts and Crosses sequence.
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Ostrich Boys
By Keith Gray
When teenager Ross Fell is killed, his closest friends are horrified by the sham and hypocrisy of his funeral.
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Rumours
By Anna Godbersen
Rumours transports us again to the ballrooms and townhouses of elite 19th Century Manhattan and picks up where The Luxe left off.
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Red Cherry Red
By Jackie Kay
Truthful, soulful and witty poems in this collection explore a theme of identity. Who are we? What reveals us? Is our identity bound up in where we live or in the dreams we hold?
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The Knife That Killed Me
By Anthony McGowan
The knife that kills Paul is nothing special, but when Roth, the school bully, first places it in his hands it makes him feel special and infuses him with a strange energy.
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Skim
By Mariko Tamaki
Meet Kimberly Keiko Cameron (aka Skim); in her diary, this graphic novel, she records familiar teenage experiences – school, assignments, friends and enemies.
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City of Ghosts
By Bali Rai
Based around the British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919, Rai’s seventh YA novel moves seamlessly through time, place, belief and genre.
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What I Saw and How I Lied
By Judy Blundell
Fifteen- year-old Evie has always felt over shadowed by her mother’s movie-star looks.
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