Teenagers Book Reviews
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Girl on the Fly
Name: Sam
07 May 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
Girl on the Fly by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl is a heartfelt tale of family and friendship. Kamaria lives with her parents, who are originally from Tanzania, and when her Aunt Rose comes to stay, Kamaria's life is thrown into all sorts of turmoil. However, Kamaria slowly starts...
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The Wrong Shoes
Name: Jacqueline Harris
07 May 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Will has the wrong shoes, they are wrong in every way because Will lives in grinding poverty and has no money for basics, let alone new shoes. Will is at secondary school and nothing seems to be going right at the moment. He feels different from everyone else because of his home life and lack...
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Too Nice
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;Genre: Family & Home
For a slim book, Too Nice packs a big emotional punch as the main character, Abby, negotiates the changes her Dad's relationship with serious girlfriend, Jen, bring. Sally Nicholls engages the reader from the beginning, as Abby struggles with her feelings after Jen moves in to...
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Explodapedia: Rewild - Can Nature Heal Our World?
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;Genre: Environment
Rewild - Can Nature Heal our World is an excellent book from the new David Fickling 'Explodapedia' series. It is equally interesting for older children and young adults and approaches the issues of climate change through the solution of nature. The chapters explore diff...
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EchoStar: is always listening
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
EchoStar: is always listening is an excellent thriller that builds the tension until the very end and (spoiler coming…) with a great final twist! For a book of only 129 pages, Melinda Salisbury manages to create an elaborate narrative full of suspense and foreboding yet centre...
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Drowning in My Bedroom
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;Genre: Environment
Drowning In My Bedroom is a fast-paced disaster story set in Manila. The author, Steve Cole, uses a torrential flood to throw light on a number of issues within this survival story: disability, poverty, inequality, modern slavery and climate change. Using the chance mee...
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The Midnight Game
Name: Ayva Age 14
03 May 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Best book ever!!!
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Explodapedia: Rewild - Can Nature heal Our World?
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 May 2024;Genre: Environment
The latest in the excellent 'Explodapedia' series, Rewild: Can Nature heal Our World? is a very engaging and accessible read. Guided by cartoons of chatty and cheeky fungi, the book carefully explains the idea behind rewilding as well as why is it so important in a humorous an...
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Magicalia
Name: Jenny Caddick
01 May 2024;Genre: Fantasy
"Until a monster swallowed her PE kit, Bitsy's evening had been going to plan." A fantastical, imaginative adventure awaits when the reader is swept into a world of magicore beasts, created by emotions held within our memories. A long-ago meteorite named farthingstone left its magical imprint...
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I Am Wolf
Name: Jacqueline Harris
29 April 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Coll lives in Wolf, one of several Constructs, technological creatures, that control the lands and fight each other for territory. Coll is a bit different from the other people on Wolf as he has a prosthetic arm and leg. He feels he is only there because Alpha, who leads Wolf, is his mother. O...