Teenagers Book Reviews
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What Happens Online: The new teen comedy from an award-winning author
Name: Julie broadbent
10 April 2025;Genre: Real life
The third and equally brilliant new book from Nathanael Lessore - What Happens Online - follows our main character Fred through his journey in Year 9 at home and at school. 14-year-old Fred is having a really hard time at school. He has been relentlessly bullied since Y...
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Close Protection
Name: Linda Brown
08 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Eden Victoria's debut novel Close Protection promises suspense, romance, and a hint of danger, but unfortunately, it doesn't fully deliver on those fronts. The story follows Daphne Green, an heiress to the Greenway Discoveries fortune, whose life of privilege is interrupted af...
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Not That Kind Of Hero
Name: Clair Bossons
04 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Orla has always felt like a sidekick rather than a hero. She quietly works hard to support her mum look after their blended family and money is tight. When she is offered the chance of a scholarship at a theatre school, she's given the opportunity to pursue her dream - but is...
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Serial Chillers: The Witch in the Woods (Serial Chillers, Book 1)
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 April 2025;Genre: Horror
Having lived in Hazard all his life, Travis is not thrilled to be going on yet another trip to the local museum. His day gets worse, however, when, with his friend, Zayd, he finds himself in a project group with his ex-friend, Danielle, and the 'shiniest' popular girl, Seline. The group - or r...
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Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake
Name: Jenny CADDICK
02 April 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake is the charmingly warm and downright funny new book, featuring main character, Hope Crumble, her fabulously engaging family members, and their trials and tribulations running the struggling family business Café Crumble. The "quiet"...
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After
Name: Jo Clarke
01 April 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Set in a futuristic world of man versus automaton, After is another Padraig Kenny masterpiece. Main characters Jen and Father are travelling to Tranquility Lake in a time where technology has seen to the demise of the world as we know it. Father is a 'mek'; he looks human, he...
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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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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...
