Teenagers Book Reviews
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Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This well-written and refreshing anthology of true stories is a journey through classic childhood experiences, reported by writers from a range of countries and with a variety of different disabilities. We see firsthand their struggle against the pressure of societal norms: as...
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I Don't Do Mountains
Name: Sue Wilsher
31 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Kenzie likes to read about adventures, but has no desire to take part in one. She doesn't like strangers and barely does friends so she's not thrilled when she finds out that she is expected to go on a hillwalking expedition with pupils from another school and Sorley Mackay, the most annoying...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...
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Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...
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The Things We Leave Behind
Name: Clair Bossons
10 March 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Shortlisted for The Carnegie Award 2025 and the UKLA Book Award, The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss is a stunning and thought-provoking dystopian novel. It is set in the near future, where London is teetering on the edge of collapse. Amid a refugee cr...
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All Better Now
Name: Sam
07 March 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
In All Better Now, a virus is spreading, but this one is different: first there's a fever, and then utter contentment. Those that survive the Crown Royale virus find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that used to weigh them down are gone. This all soun...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Sue Wilsher
07 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Cassia Thorne lives in the Fleet with her father, who is in prison for debt. She does what she can to support them by selling ballads in the streets and giving music lessons. When the younger brother of her friend goes missing, Cassia is determined to find him and with the hel...
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The Storm and the Sea Hawk
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ysolda is on the run with the daughter of her enemy, the Wolf Queen. They are travelling to find the Anchorite and for Ysolda to free her sister and try to stop the terrible things happening across the country. Plunged into the cold world of the Norveger, Ysolda has to test her courage to its...
