Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Clair Bossons
15 September 2023;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Katherine Rondell's Impossible Creatures is a stunning book! The endpapers are illustrated with a map of The Archipelago, a secret cluster of islands where all the mythological creatures live side by side with humans. This is followed by The Guardian's Bestiary; a wonderful il...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
14 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Robert and Rachel Klein have defeated the villainous Charles Malstain; the land of Krasnia and its capital city, Brava, are now full of joy, colour and happy citizens, and Rachel and Robert are national heroes. Then a boy appears from nowhere and presents Rachel with a blood-red key. She has n...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
13 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

So here it is! We've reached the end of Herbie and Violet's winter shenanigans with the explosive story of the Mermedusa. Those devoted readers who have followed all their other adventures will find many loose ends pleasingly tied up in their final (perhaps?) adventure. Thomas...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
13 September 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future gives a fascinating insight into inventors and their inventions that are having an impact on millions of lives throughout the world today. Many were unknown to me - both inventor and invention - and that's what made this a really...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
11 September 2023;

Genre: Poetry

And I Climbed and I Climbed is a remarkable collection of poems, focusing on Cosmo, a young boy whose life changed forever when he fell out of a tree in his garden.  Having a great deal to come to terms with, these poems explore his experiences.  Poet, Simon Lightbrown has dra...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 September 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...

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Name: Emelia Helliwell
08 September 2023;

Genre: Horror

Welcome to Camp Killer is set in the north of England and is about a group of teenagers who start their summer looking to earn money and have fun helping to run a new American-style residential camp called 'Camp Miller' in the grounds of a stately home. When opening 'Ca...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
03 September 2023;

Genre: Animals

There are so many books available about dogs but there are none like A World of Dogs: A Celebration of Fascinating Facts and Amazing Real-Life Stories for Dog Lovers. Bestselling children's author (and accidental American Dingo-owner) Carlie Sorosiak has written this unique tr...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

This, the fifth and final trip to Eerie-on-Sea, concludes Herbie and Violet's adventures and, like others I'm sure, I read Mermedusa with mixed feelings - delight at another visit to one of my favourite fictional places and great sadness that there would be no...

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