Teenagers Book Reviews
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Let Sleeping Gods Lie
Name: Hayley Summerfield
16 August 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Thiago De Moraes has brought us another brilliant instalment of Trixie De Santos in Let Sleeping Gods Lie. This hugely entertaining story celebrates different cultures and highlights the importance of family bonds. Trixie is back, and just when she thou...
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Electric Life
Name: Luke Age 11
14 August 2024;Genre: Dystopian
This book is the most thrill seeking book I could find - a full-on adventure of a too-good-to-be-true society.
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Wintour's Game
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 August 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Arriving with a bang, as a thrilling chase round London ensues, arch thief Alex Wintour is clearly not a girl to be messed with. She and seemingly smug rich-boy Cole are temporals - Oracles with the ability to see into the future but - certainly in uninitiated Alex's case - not the ability to...
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Reek
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 August 2024;Genre: Dystopian
Reek is a cli-fi (climate fiction) story about the planet following the release of deadly toxic pollution. The survivors live in airlocked safety where survival outside depends, ironically, on the use of oxygen tanks to pay for tank refills. Sparrow, the central charact...
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A History of My Weird
Name: Jenny Caddick
05 August 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
It is the start of secondary school for autistic Mo and the start of learning to navigate a whole new set of spoken and unspoken rules in life. Primary school friendships seem a million years away and Mo already feels exhausted and alienated by her new surroundings; "I'm so rubbish at life". M...
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My Family and Other Romans
Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
My Family And Other Romans by Marie Basting is an eccentric mix of a story based on Roman Britain and a 21st Century girl called Silvia. This brilliantly funny story entwines history with reality and the combination is nothing but captivating. Silvia is...
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Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace
Name: Rachel Bolton
01 August 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace is the latest in the excellent series 'Voices' which focuses upon important but less well-known people in the past. It tells the story of Hardit Singh Malik, World War One's first Indian pilot. This is an excellent book on ma...
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My family and other Romans
Name: Jenny Caddick
30 July 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
A fun and fast paced historical comedy read featuring time-travelling Roman role play fanatics and a version of Ancient Rome. My family and other Romans is a lively, light-hearted and entertaining read. Schoolgirl Silvia Fortuna Juno De Luca lives pract...
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The Tall Man
Name: Jacqueline Harris
29 July 2024;Genre: Supernatural
Tom moves to a new home with his mother to get away from an ended relationship. They move into an almost derelict old house, known as the Tall Man's house. Starting a new school adds to the complications as Tom finds it difficult to fit in and the bullies come out of the woodwork to torment hi...
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STAGS
Name: Max Age 13
26 July 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The way Henry deceives the three protagonists, with his sly and flirty manner, conveys such character and had me on the edge of my seat while I read this masterpiece. The ending of Fishin' had me shocked and when we found out the twist at the end I couldn't wait to start the next book in the s...
