Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Beverley Somerset
09 September 2024;

Genre: School Stories

Astrid is a different from the rest of the girls in her Y7 class, and she likes it that way.  She loves to read and is a keen member of the Scribble Society, where she enjoys creative writing.  She is best friends with Lola and is happy with her life.  When new boy Teddy joins the school, Astr...

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Name: Clair Bossons
06 September 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Save Our Forest! is an inspiring graphic novel. Bao, our main character, discovers that the forest they play in is about to be turned into an extended school car park. She attempts to go through the right channels to save their forest but when this doesn't work, the friends cl...

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Name: Jo Clarke
05 September 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Katya Balen does more than write stories: she orchestrates them. Her words have rhythm; they ebb and flow like the waters around the island on which this spectacular story is set.  Ghostlines begins gently with an introduction to life on the remote, small isla...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
05 September 2024;

Genre: Supernatural

Gabriel Dylan has brought us another spine-chilling adventure from the Shiver Point squad in Shiver Point: Under A Howling Moon.  Its Oli's birthday and he wants nothing more than to spend the weekend camping, exploring and telling spooky stories round the campfire with his be...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
03 September 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Exactly one year after her mum's death and the night before she goes back to school, Suzy Button makes three wishes in the light of the supermoon in her garden at midnight, desperate for things to change, but not at all believing that they can or will. What Suzy definitely hadn'’t bargained fo...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
02 September 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

In Circus Maximus: Return of the Champion, Dido is back in her fourth and final adventure in this action-packed historical series.  Dido is living in North Africa, training horses and keeping her head down.  A slave boy from Rome, Damon, is thrown into her path, with their dei...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 September 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

When a strange creature is rescued from the sea and brought to the marine sanctuary where Sasha works, she finds herself fascinated by the beautiful sea-girl, who is kept for scientific research and exhibited to a curious public. As Sasha spends time with 'Marissa', as she names her, the sea-g...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
02 September 2024;

Genre: Myths & Legends

This haunting new novella from Berlie Doherty with gorgeous illustrations by Tamsin Roseweil is a gem - a wonderful, imaginative story to share, stitched from the glittering threads of traditional tales of mermaids. At the start, a strange and wonderful creature is brou...

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Name: Alice
02 September 2024;

Genre: Poetry

Matt Goodfellow's new poetry collection, Tomorrow We Begin, displays the same deep understanding and love of schools, their students and staff as his verse novel The Final Year did, with standalone poems covering uncomfortable blazers, so-c...

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Name: Katie
02 September 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Dream Hunters is a fast-paced fantasy adventure for any child who loves their adventures with a magical edge. In this story, the magic is provided by child 'dream hunters' - children are taught to follow dreams and to catch them with their special needles, bottling them to hel...

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