Teenagers Book Reviews
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All The Jingle Ladies
Name: Beverley Somerset
13 December 2022;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Molly Bell hates Christmas. When she was very young, her parents (aka The Brussel Shouts) wrote and released the world's cheesiest Christmas record, Love Your Elf, and Molly, dressed as a cute little elf, delivered the last line. Now 15, Molly dreads anyone finding out about this. If the secre...
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The Eternal Return of Clara Hart
Name: Louise Baker
01 December 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
How long could you turn a blind eye to the actions of your friends, before speaking up? Teenager James 'Spence' Spencer is coming to the slow realisation that his friends aren't the people he thought they were - and that, by association, he's walking a very dangerous path. After witness...
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Glowrushes
Name: Linda Brown
01 December 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Glowrushes has been considered to be an Italian masterpiece by this author and for the very first time has been translated into English. I'm so pleased that this has been done. This is a book that will stay with you long after you have put it down. It will put your emotions on...
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The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
Name: Louisa Farrow
30 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...
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The Ghost Locket
Name: Janet Fisher
30 November 2022;Genre: Supernatural
Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields. But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...
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Into the Sideways World
Name: Ellora Age 11
27 November 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
Ross Welford is an exceptionally brilliant author with his mind blowing time books and Into The Sideways World is no exception. I read this book in one sitting, so mesmerised with the way he writes. I love how he involved the future and a different world into this book it's am...
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Murder at Snowfall
Name: Ruth Cornish
22 November 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Murder at Snowfall, the latest murder mystery from Fleur Hitchcock, is an exciting middle grade book featuring realistic characters with real life issues in addition to a thrilling sideline in detective work. The atmosphere created by the author is as chilling as the season as...
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Truly Tyler
Name: Rikayla Age 13
18 November 2022;Genre: Friendship
I Love the Terri Libenson Series, it is the best book I ever read. I give this book a 5 out of 5 that is how good it is.
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The Boy Lost in the Maze
Name: Clare Wilkins
16 November 2022;Genre: Myths & Legends
Acclaimed poet Joseph Coelho seamlessly binds myth and reality in this spellbinding new verse novel. A poetic retelling of the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Theseus's quest to find his father, runs parallel with a contemporary story of a teenage boy and his absent father. In An...
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The Chestnut Roaster
Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Piaf (Sparrow) is a chestnut roaster in Paris in the 1800s whilst The Eiffel Tower is just being built. Piaf is blessed (or is it cursed?) with total recall of every event in her life. There is something dangerous lurking in the background; 20 gifted children have disappeared, and Piaf's own b...
