Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
16 August 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Lina’s family went to America five years ago, but she stayed behind with her grandmother - until now! At last she’s going to join them! When she arrives, life in America is quite different from the way she imagined it (from watching The Simpsons and from her mother’s letters). At school, it’s...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
11 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

A clever adventure fantasy with a strange dystopian future at its heart. It is a story so relevant to our current time; themes of climate change and powerful, society controlling technology make the events seem all the more relatable, thought-provoking and easily imagined. The world has...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
10 August 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is an ambitious book: it sets out to help make the world a fairer place for everyone by investigating racism. Words from Yasmin Abdul-Magied and pictures from Aleesha Nandra work effectively together to explore three key questions: why rac...

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Name: Janet Fisher
10 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Poor Vincent skulks around at school trying not to be noticed or have anyone notice he is alone. But teachers have noticed he seems to have no friends and put him forward for an adventuring weekend away, involving tents and lots of walking! He is joined by Lena who has an ulterior motive for j...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 August 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

The Light Thieves: Search for the Black Mirror is book 2 in The Light Thieves series and is a hugely ingenious, futuristic sci-fi fantasy adventure by Helena Duggan, author of the sinisterly brilliant <a href="/books/a-place-called-perfe...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
02 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

12-year-old Alice Townsend is looking forward to the most exciting summer of her life. Her father is the Staff Captain on board the luxury ship Queen Mary, and Alice is joining him on a voyage across the Atlantic to New York. The ship's crew are aiming to cross the ocean in the fastest time to...

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Name: Arnalina Age 12
02 August 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

I love this book, because it is not only romantic, but also has other factors of feeling like sadness, anger, and loneliness. I simply adore the quotes in the book, and the way it raises your spirit. Far From Perfect can teach that the lives of stars are not so sugar sweet, an...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Meesh the Bad Demon is a totally fantastic fantasy graphic novel featuring 12-year-old schoolgirl demon Meesh. Although a demon, Meesh is a huge fan of all things fairy like - especially TV fairy Princess Nouna and her life in Plumeria City. This is not the usual habit for an...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Sufiya Ahmed has delighted us with another thrill-seeking spy adventure, Rosie Raja: Mission to Cairo. This story is filled with adventure, culture and history. It enables the reader to read about war in a different way - through the eyes of a child spy. When Rosie and...

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Name: Emily Age 8
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Meesh the Bad Demon is about Meesh wanting to be a fairy and then everyone in Mount Magma turns to stone and Meesh meets fairy Nouna. Nouna is a fairy who can't fly without her ruby and then Meesh finds out that the fang she has around her neck also gives her powers. Nouna lea...

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