Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Sam Phillips
03 June 2021;

Genre: Personal Growth

What an absolutely fantastic book! Sports Legends, 50 Inspiring People includes a selection of tales from well known athletes who at different stages in their lives have overcome a variety of challenges and issues in order to achieve their goal and ultimate sporting fame. Negative body image,...

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Name: Kimberley Lawson
01 June 2021;

Genre: Historical Fiction

We Played With Fire By Catherine Barter is based on the true story of the Fox sisters - Kate, Maggie and Leah - and it plunges the reader straight into the forbidden cellar of the Fox family's remote old house in New York State, full of bitter cold, brooding shadows and noises...

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Name: Jo Clarke
01 June 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

In Melt, two lives seemingly poles apart are thrown together in a quest to seek answers and, most importantly to survive. Bea is always the new girl. Her Dad's job means that she is forever moving home, moving schools, losing friends and trying to fit in. Yutu lives a t...

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Name: Hamizah Aziz
01 June 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

A book for young readers but as a 30 something, I enjoyed reading it! The book has everything; adventure, humor, sibling love, and friendship. Jane Austen Investigates - The Abbey Mystery by Julia Golding tells the story of young Jane Austen as a young detective. When an accident in the family...

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Name: Dan Katz
01 June 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Supreme Mage Creed is looking for The Child of the Faceless Ones - destined to bring the ruthless Faceless Ones back to Earth - and he has a way to find her. Trouble is, it involves the deaths of millions - possibly billions - of people, and will result in the subjugation of mortals. On top of...

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Name: Linda Canning
01 June 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

The Secret Detectives is a historical mystery, set on a ship sailing from India. When orphan Isobel sets sail on the S.S. Marianna, the last thing she expects is to make new friends... or to solve a murder! Thrust into a world she doesn't understand, Isobel must catch the murd...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 June 2021;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen have been friends since their schooldays. Now they are Royal Navy recruits and, as the story starts, are on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic Convoy and they are on their way to Russia to deliver vital su...

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Name: Andrew Mullen
31 May 2021;

Genre: Friends and family

Starboard tells the story of a young reality TV star, struggling with the fickle nature and pressures of fame, and of one of the most famous ships in British history, the SS Great Britain. Whilst on a school trip to the SS Great Britain, Kirsten feels a connection with the ship and so begins a...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Twitch is a loner. Bullied at school, he prefers the company of birds to people, and his main hobby is birdwatching. It's the start of the summer holidays and when Twitch arrives at his hide in the Aves Wood Nature Reserve, he finds that there are police everywhere, all search...

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Name: Susan Wilsher
27 May 2021;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. The thought of staying with someone she doesn't know in the middle of nowhere with no TV, no internet and no phone access fills Simi with horror, particularly as Simi's mother and grandmother are estranged. When she arrive...

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