Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Morgan Harkin
24 September 2022;

Genre: Horror

The chilling young adult novel by J P Rose follows the story of a young boy from Manchester, entrapped by emotions following his father's death, the young boy travels to Jamaica to see his grandmother and family. After the reminder of his father's life in the family home rapidly affects Tyrese...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
23 September 2022;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

Snatched from Essaka in Africa, Olaudah Equiano was captured and enslaved at the age of 11. Having spent time in Barbados and Virginia, he then spent the next eight years travelling the world as slave to a British Royal Navy officer, who renamed him Gustavus Vassa. His final master allowed him...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
20 September 2022;

Genre: Bereavement

17 year old Sam's father, a sergeant in the British Army, was killed in a bomb attack while serving in Afghanistan. Sam had been close to his dad and loved nothing better than walking the hills around the age-old chalk figure of the White Horse sharing ancient myths and legends. When, on the d...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;

Genre: Poetry

Let's Chase Stars Together is a stunning collection of poems, reflecting a whole range of emotions. Matt Goodfellow is an exceptionally talented poet who has the knack of selecting just the right words to capture and reflect feelings and thoughts which we all share and giving...

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Name: Linda Canning
15 September 2022;

Genre: Horror

Let me start with a disclaimer - I hate scary books. As a child, I lost countless nights of sleep whilst lying paralysed with fear waiting for monsters, aliens and/or ghosts to come and claim me as their victim (R.L. Stine has a lot to answer for)! Therefore, I avoid horror like the plague - n...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

In 2030, the world leaders pledged a coordinated and unprecedented response to the Climate Crisis, introducing strict Climate Laws and establishing World Wilderness Zones, including the High Arctic. Rory's mum is an environmental geologist whose new job with Greenlight, a company which claims...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

With his Uncle Horatio still trapped in a poisoned sleep, Milo steals away with his new friend, Alessia, to find the cure. They need to find the Botanist and discover her magical treehouse - and Milo's grandmother. The children work with the Botanist to find the ingredients for the cure, forag...

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Name: Donna Burkert
15 September 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

In The Last Storyteller, a comet is heading for Earth and an exodus of the chosen few has begun. Petra and her family are some of the ones chosen ones to board the three Pleiades vessels that will take them across the galaxy to a new planet, a new home. With their bodies place...

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Name: Clare Parkinson
13 September 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

I was grateful to receive this from a ReadingZone competition, and looked forward to the children in my primary school library enjoying it. I confess science fiction isn't really my thing. We had read Orion Lost in a year 5 book group, and I had found it slight...

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Name: Emelia Helliwell
10 September 2022;

Genre: Dystopian

Wranglestone is set in a post-apocalyptic America after a plague has brought back the dead, and follows the lives of people surviving in a settlement. Peter and his dad are living by a lake when, one evening, Peter allows a stranger to come far to close, not realising the dang...

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