Teenagers Book Reviews
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Calm
Name: Clare Wilkins
16 September 2024;Genre: Dystopian
An intriguing and disturbingly credible premise sees a nation lulled into a state-controlled state of apathy. Tampering with the water supplies has led to a population of passive conformists, with anger, fear and dissent mere memories. But it is a world of supposed calm that...
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Anticipation
Name: Clare Wilkins
16 September 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Big Tech and high stakes mark this AI-inspired story of a girl inheriting her father's company, and with it, a whole world of trouble. 17-year-old Riya's father has built the Anticipation Machine - 'ART', a game-changing tool with the power to predict people's futures. With only six keyholder...
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Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Amari and the Night Brothers)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
16 September 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Amari has been cast out of the Bureau of Supernatural Investigations and has lost her magic, stolen by Dylan. On the plus side, her brother Quinton is awake and once again back to being the superstar agent. Quinton is determined to keep Amari safe, but when she finds out that Dylan has a terri...
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Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment
Name: Sue Wilsher
13 September 2024;Genre: Adventure
In Whetherwhy, everyone has a little bit of magic inside them, linked to one of the seasons, but each year, a handful of enchanters are born; those who can wield magic connected with spring, summer, autumn and winter. Juniper and Rafferty Quinn are twins, living with their family at the...
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The Horse who Danced
Name: Hayley Summerfield
09 September 2024;Genre: Adventure
We all have dreams and sometimes these dreams come at a cost. . . The Horse who Danced is a beautifully written story by Olivia Tuffin about a young girls dream to be a dressage star. Iona lives on the Kestrel Estate and helps her mom to run the trekk...
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Bigg School: Secret Crush
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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Save Our Forest!
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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Ghostlines
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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Shiver Point: Under A Howling Moon
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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Sisters of the Moon
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...
