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Fiction for teens Updated: January 2013

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Fiction for teens

Anderson, Laurie HalseChains. 2009. 6v. Suggested reading age 13+.Isabel and her sister, Ruth, are slaves. Sold from one owner to the next, they arrive in New York as the Americans are fighting for their independence, and the English are struggling to maintain control. Soon Isabel is struggling too. Struggling to keep herself and her sister safe in a world in which they have no control.

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Bennett, SophiaThreads. 2009. 5v.Nonie, Edie and Jenny are best friends with very individual tastes. Nonie's a trend setter and her passion is fashion. Humanitarian Edie is on a mission to save the world and budding actress Jenny has just landed a small part in a Hollywood blockbuster. When they meet a young African refugee called Crow, sketching a dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, they discover a common passion and somehow find a way to make all of their dreams come true.

Blackman, MalorieBoys don't cry. 2010. 6v. Suggested reading age 13+.Dante is about to receive his A-level results and then a future of university and journalism awaits. But the day they're due to arrive his old girlfriend Kendra turns up unexpectedly with a baby. He assumes Kendra's helping a friend, until she nips out to buy some essentials, leaving him holding the baby. Then she doesn't come back and his future suddenly looks very different.

Blackman, Malorie.Noughts and crosses. 2002. 9v. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 of the Noughts and Crosses series. Some of the other books in the series are also available. Callum is a nought, a second-class citizen in a world run by the ruling Crosses. Sephy is a Cross, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. In their world, noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. As hostility turns to violence, can Callum and Sephy possibly find a way to be together?

Blaxill, GinaPretty twisted. 2011. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.Ros has a secret crush on Jonathan. Jonathan is massively hung up on Freya. And Freya? Well, Freya is a beautiful enigma. Even more so when she goes missing without a trace. 'Pretty Twisted' is narrated in alternating chapters by Jonathan (16) and Ros (14).

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Brooks, KevinBlack rabbit summer. 2008. 10v. Suggested reading age 13+.Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. 'Listen, Pete ...you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground ...I thought we could all meet up ...You know, for old times' sake.' But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives.

Cassidy, AnneForget me not. 2008. 4v. Suggested reading age 13+.A child has been stolen. Jade Henderson is missing, taken from her cot. Stella Parfitt watches the police investigation unfold, and begins to ask her own questions. Where was her mother that night? The woods hold a dark secret.

Cast, P. C. Marked. 2009. 5v. Suggested interest age 15+.Book 1 of the House of Night series. The second book is also available. When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. But Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the Goddess Nyx and discovers her amazing new power to conjure the elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit. When Zoey discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look within herself to embrace her destiny.

Christopher, LucyStolen. 2009. 7v. Suggested reading age 13+.Sixteen year old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma

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to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback.

Clare, CassandraClockwork angel. 2010. Currently in processing. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 of the Infernal Devices series. London, 1878. 16-year-old Tessa Gray's priority should be finding her brother, not falling in love with two boys. She is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove fatal. Tessa will need all her strength to save her brother & stay alive as she learns about what really lurks on London's streets after dark.

Collins, Suzanne.The Hunger Games. 2009. 6v. Suggested reading age 13+. Book 1 of the Hunger Games Trilogy. Books 2 and 3 are currently in processing. In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Dessen, SarahAlong for the ride. 2009. 6v. Suggested reading age 15+.Auden has always felt like the odd one out. Since her parents' divorce she's shied away, studying lots and staying out of the party scene. But now Auden's realized there must be something more and, just like that, she changes everything. Moving to her dad's house opens up a whole new world of beach parties, food fights - and simply having fun. As she gets to know herself - and a secretive boy with dark, brooding eyes - can Auden begin to let go and finally feel like she truly belongs?

Dogar, SharonWaves. 2007. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+.For fifteen-year-old Hal Ditton and his family, summer has always meant six glorious weeks by the sea. But this year is different - Charley, Hal's sister, is lying in a coma. When the troubled family makes the difficult decision to return to their holiday home without her, Hal finds it harder than anyone to shake off his elder sister's

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presence. In fact, Hal's mind is crowded with thoughts of Charley, and the events that led to her accident on the beach last summer - thoughts which, he comes to realise, are not entirely his own.

Dowd, Siobhan.Bog child. 2008. 6v. Suggested reading age 13+.Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.

Downham, JennyBefore I die. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+.Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out.

Edge, HarrySpray. 2008. 4v. Suggested interest age 13+.Five teenagers enrol in a play assassination game in a fictional city. They each have their own stories to tell, their own relationships unresolved, for some the game and the end result is more important than others. But what becomes clear, as the plot and the game unravels, is that the danger is more real than they thought, and that the Gamekeeper has a shady agenda of his own.

Fine, AnneThe road of bones. 2006. 2v. Suggested reading age 15+.Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to

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report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words lead him to a virtual death sentence.

Fitzpatrick, BeccaHush, hush. 2010. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+. Nora's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school. Not until Patch came along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, she is drawn to him against her better judgement. But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and knows more about her than her closest friends. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

Grant, HelenThe vanishing of Katharina Linden. 2009. 7v.On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her alive. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a ten-year-old girl vanish in a place where everybody knows everybody else? Pia is determined to find out what happened to Katharina. But then the next girl disappears.

Grant, Michael.Gone. 2009. 10v. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 in the Gone series. In the blink of an eye, the world changes. The adults vanish without a trace, and those left must do all they can to survive. But everyone's idea of survival is different. Some look after themselves, some look after others, and some will do anything for power. For Sam and Astrid, it is a race against time as they try to solve the questions that now dominate their lives. What is the mysterious wall that has encircled the town of Perdido Beach and trapped everyone within? Why have some kids developed strange powers? And can they defeat Caine and his gang of bullies before they turn fifteen and disappear too?

Gray, KeithOstrich boys. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+ .After the depressing funeral of their best friend, 15 year old Ros, Kenny, Sim and Blake decide to steal the urn containing his ashes. They want to take him to the place named Ross, in southern

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Scotland. He changed their lives through his friendship, but little do they realise just how much he can still affect life for them even though he's dead.

Harvey, AlyxandraHaunting Violet. 2011. 7v. Suggested reading age 13+.Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts, especially since her mother has worked as a fraudulent medium for a decade. Violet has taken part in enough of her mother's tricks to feel more than a little jaded about anything supernatural. The ghosts, however, believe in Violet and she's been seeing them everywhere.

Hartnett, SonyaThe midnight zoo. 2010. 3v. Suggested reading age 13+.Under the cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle: a zoo filled with animals in need of hope.

Hearn, Lian.Across the nightingale floor. 2003. 3v. Suggested reading age 15+.Book 1 of the Tales of the Otori. Other titles in the series are also available. The first book in the Otori trilogy is a tale of war, intrigue, love and betrayal set in an imaginary ancient Japanese society and tells the story of Takeo, a young man born to a spiritual people known as the Hidden. Unbeknown to him, his father was a celebrated assassin.

Kate, LaurenFallen. 2010. 9v. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 of the Fallen series. 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword and Cross, only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart.

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Landman, Tanya.The goldsmith's daughter. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.A young girl's struggle to change her destiny, set against the destruction of the Aztec empire. Her father, a goldsmith, discovers her talent and she starts to work secretly as his apprentice. But danger awaits as Spanish strangers invade the city. And when Itacate's work comes to the emperor's attention and she falls in love with a stranger, her life takes an even more perilous turn. Can survive in this harsh new world?

Lewis, AliEverybody Jam. 2011. 6v. Suggested reading age 13+.Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback, where everyone's getting ready for the annual muster. But this year everything is different because Danny's older brother Jonny has died in a farm accident, and his 14-year-old sister is pregnant. Then English backpacker Liz is hired as a house girl.

Lloyd, SaciThe carbon diaries 2015. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.It's January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing, in a drastic bid to combat climate change. As her family spirals out of control, Laura Brown chronicles the first year of rationing with scathing abandon. In these dark days, Laura deals with the issues that really matter: love, floods and pigs.

Le Vann, KateThings I know about love. 2008. 3v.Livia is starting a new chapter in her life. She has been ill with leukaemia for most of her teen years and, as she heads out to America to visit her brother Jeff, she plans on making up for lost time. She's had a lot of time to think about love - but her observations, theories, previous crushes and boyfriends all pale in comparison to what she finds in New York...

Lore, PittacusI am Number Four. 2010. 8v. Suggested reading age 13+.John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He

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does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can't run forever. So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People he cares about - and who care about him. Never in John's short life has there been

McGowan, AnthonyThe knife that killed me. 2008. 3v. Suggested reading age 15+.This thought-provoking and original novel highlights the terrible consequences of peer pressure and violence, and casts a spotlight on the worrying rise in knife crime among teenagers. Paul Varderman gets involved with the school's most evil bully, Roth and a gang at a nearby school. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him and scares him at the same time.

McKenzie, SophieBlood ties. 2008. 7v. Suggested reading age 13+.When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister. But when Rachel and Theo are attacked by men from RAGE - the Righteous Army against Genetic Engineering - at Rachel's school disco, they are rescued by strangers and taken to meet a mysterious figure. There, they both make some startling discoveries about their identities, which will affect their past, present, and future in dramatic and life-altering ways.

Meyer, StephenieTwilight. 2007. 7v. Suggested reading age 15+. Book 1 of the Twilight series. The rest of the series is also available. When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is

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convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him. He seems determined to push her away, until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car.

Mulligan, AndyTrash. 2010. 4v. Suggested reading age 13+.Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael's world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls into his hands. It's a bag of clues. It's a bag of hope. It's a bag that will change everything. Soon Raphael and his friends Gardo and Rat are running for their lives. Wanted by the police, it takes all their quick-thinking, fast-talking to stay ahead. As the net tightens, they uncover a dead man's mission to put right a terrible wrong. And now it's three street-boys against the world.

Ness, PatrickThe knife of never letting go. 2008. 9v. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 of the Chaos Walking series. The other books in the series are also available. Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men and you can hear everything they think - and they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man but his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.

Newbery, LindaSet in stone. 2006. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+.When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic home, little does he expect to come across such a web of secrets and lies. His two tutees are as different as chalk and cheese - the beautiful younger sister Marianne, full of flightiness and nervous imagination, and Juliana, oddly sensible and controlled. Assisted by their elusive governess, Charlotte Agnew, Samuel begins to uncover slowly why Marianne is so emotionally fragile. But his discoveries lead to revenge and betrayal - and lives all around are turned upside down as life and death combat each other for supremacy.

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Oliver, LaurenDelirium. 2011. Currently in processing. Suggested reading age 13+.Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. But then, with only 95 days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable!

Pitcher, Annabel.My sister lives on the mantelpiece. 2011. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all.

Rosoff, MegThe bride's farewell. 2009. 3v. Suggested reading age 15+.On the morning of her wedding, Pell Ridley creeps out of bed in the dark, kisses her sisters goodbye and flees - determined to escape a future that offers nothing but hard work and sorrow. She takes the only thing that truly belongs to her: Jack, a white horse. The road ahead is rich with longing, silence and secrets, and each encounter leads her closer to the untold story of her past. Then Pell meets a hunter, infuriating, mysterious and cold. Will he help her to find what she seeks?

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Ruiz Zafon, Carlos.The Prince of Mist. 2010. 4v. Suggested reading age 13+.In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.

Sedgwick, MarcusMy swordhand is singing. 2006. 2v. Suggested reading age 13+.In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas is churlish - taciturn at the best of times. He digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why, all his life they've moved from place to place, or why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go, and why he is forbidden to know its mysterious contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down.

Sedgwick, MarcusWhite crow. 2010. 4v. Suggested reading age 13+.It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards, year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against her better judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends. Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith's stories is that of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow.

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Sepetys, RutaBetween shades of gray. 2011. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+.One night 15-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope.

Singleton, Sarah.The Amethyst child. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.It's the summer holidays and Amber is bored. So when she meets non-conformist Dowdie, she is bowled over. Dowdie lives in a commune known as the Community, and gradually, Amber finds herself drawn into it. She discovers that Dowdie is an Amethyst child - a child with special talents unrecognised by normal society - and that her father, James, the leader of the commune, believes Amber is one too. Meanwhile Amber also meets Johnny, a gorgeous loner who shares her interest in photography. But Johnny is very dismissive of the Community, a place Amber now holds dear. Torn between Johnny and her friend Dowdie, Amber finds herself being drawn into a world of dark and dangerous secrets, which can only end in death and disillusionment.

Smith, L J The awakening ; and The struggle. 2009. 9v. Suggested reading age 13+.Books 1 and 2 of the Vampire Diaries. In The Awakening: Elena Gilbert is used to getting what she wants and she wants mysterious new boy, Stefan. But Stefan is hiding a deadly secret - a secret that will change Elena's life for ever. In The Struggle: Elena is torn between her boyfriend, Stefan, and his brother, Damon. But these brothers hide dark secrets and a tragic past that threatens them all. Damon wants to lead Elena astray - and he'd rather kill Stefan than let him possess her.

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St. Crow, LiliStrange angels. 2009. 5v. Suggested reading age 15+.Book 1 of the Strange Angels series. Dru Anderson can sense evil, which helps when she and her Dad are tracking down ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional reanimated corpse. It's a dangerous life, but it's the only one she knows. Then Dru's dad turns up dead and she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last.

Stiefvater, MaggieLinger. 2010. 8v. Suggested reading age 13+.Book 1 of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series. Grace and Sam must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping dangerous secrets. For Sam, it means grappling with his werewolf past and figuring out a way to survive the future. But just when they manage to find happiness, Grace finds herself changing in ways she could never have expected.

Summers, TamaraNever bite a boy on the first date. 2009. Suggested reading age 13+. 4v.Newly-turned vampire Kira has earned a reputation for breaking rules. So when a student is murdered at her high school, all fingers point to Kira. In order to prove her innocence she has to show them that there's another vampire in town. She's pretty sure it's one of three new guys who've moved in recently. Dating three cute boys may be fun, but which one is the murdering vampire? And what if he's the boy she's falling for!?

Thompson, KateCreature of the night. 2008. 5v. Suggested reading age 13+.When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn't care. He wants to get back to Dublin and resume his wild life there, stealing and racing stolen cars.

Valentine, JennyBroken soup. 2008. 3v. Suggested reading age 13+.When the good-looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan's hand, she's sure it's all a big

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mistake. But next moment he's gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. And she can't afford to lose her place in the checkout queue - after all, if she doesn't take the groceries home, nobody else will. Rowan has more responsibilities than most girls her age. These days, she pretty much looks after her little sister single-handedly - which doesn't leave much time for friends or fun. So when she finds out that Bee from school saw the whole thing, it piques her curiosity. Who was the boy? Why was he so insistent that the negative belonged to Rowan?

Westerfeld, Scott.Uglies. 2005. 3v. Suggested reading age 15+. Book 1 of the Uglies Quartet. Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Zusak, Markus.The book thief. 2007. 9v. Suggested reading age 15+.Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. She befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed with Jesse Owens. She also befriends the mayor's wife, who hides from despair in her library. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the richer people of Molching. In time, the family hide a Jewish boxer, Max, who reads with Liesel in the basement. By 1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail. Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day in the life of Himmel street, the wail of the sirens comes too late.

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