Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Wesley Age 12
28 November 2016;

Genre: Personal Growth

It has an amazing plot and can be humerous, dark, scary and very much true to real life.

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Name: Elizabeth Harris
27 October 2016;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

In Murder in Midwinter, a busy Christmas shopping trip on Oxford Street turns into a nightmare for Maya when she sees a man threatening a woman with a gun. Horrified by what she has seen, her family notify the police. The investigation takes a dramatic turn when a body is pull...

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Name: Karen Poolton
17 October 2016;

Genre: Real life

Lottie is very angry with the way she is treated just because she is female. After a disturbing sexual harassment incident on the way to college, she resolves to start a project, highlighting and standing up to every single incidence of sexism she comes across for a whole month. Althoug...

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Name: Janet Fisher
06 October 2016;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

The Secret of Nightingale Wood is a story about grief at the loss of sons, and its effect upon the mothers principally but also upon a girl left to fend for herself with the aftermath. Henrietta and her family, mother, father, baby Piglet and Nanny Jane have moved to a...

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Name: Wesley Age 12
20 September 2016;

Genre: Adventure

It is an amazing thriller and the suspense that builds up is amazingly done by Allan Gibbons. A real page turner.

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Name: Stef A
20 September 2016;

Genre: Friends and family

Jessie Jefferson is a typical teenager until she loses her mum in sudden and tragic circumstances. Wracked with pain and feelings of guilt she takes it out on the people closest to her and rebels. She ditches her best friend and hangs out with the wrong crowd - they don't ask questions or offe...

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Name: Jane Welby
05 September 2016;

Genre: Friends and family

Maybe every teenage girl's fantasy...to be suddenly catapulted into the lives of the rich and famous. Jessie is a fairly typical teenager, coping with the sudden and traumatic death of her mother and lashing out at those closest to her as a way of coping with the pain. The mystery about who her b...

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Name: Jonny
11 August 2016;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

I didn't really like the story it was way too long it wasn't intresting. It wasn't descriptive enough.

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Name: Paula Hazlehurst
07 July 2016;

Genre: Real life

The main narrator of Follow Me Back is Aiden, a good looking, sporty, intelligent boy with temper issues. Other voices in the book are Lizzy (the missing girl), Marnie (her best friend) and Scobie (Aiden's best friend). The story is this: Lizzy goes missing in London. The police get involved. Aid...

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Name: Kate M
06 May 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This book was well written and overall - the parts I read - very descriptive. However I found it very hard to connect with the characters and at times I struggles with the story line. Especially the first paragraph of each chapter which was referring to a separate story line all together. This...

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