Teenagers Book Reviews
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Birdsong
Name: Kelly Buxton
07 July 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Birdsong is a solemn read about a girl whose life is splintered into tiny pieces when she and her mum are involved in a car crash. The crash leaves the girl with a scarred arm, resulting in the shattering of her promising flute career. The story follows a melody of grief: for...
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The Case of the Smuggler's Curse
Name: Carol Wright
07 July 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The After-school Detective Club comprises four new friends and their dog, Sherlock. Their first adventure, set in the beautiful coastal town of Southwold, Suffolk, sees them caught up in a ghost mystery. Their investigations lead them into serious trouble with the police. Written by bes...
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Her Dark Wings
Name: Linda Brown
07 July 2022;Genre: Myths & Legends
I simply loved Her Dark Wings! This author seriously knows how to keep her target audience engaged, with her believable characters and world building... Corey is 16 and has lived all of her life on a tiny island that's in between the mainland and the edge of the Underwo...
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Cuckoo Summer
Name: Elen Green
07 July 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Cuckoo Summer is one of those books that you know is going to find a natural place alongside books like Goodnight Mr Tom (Michelle Magorian) and The Valley Of Lost Secrets (Lesley Parr); there is so much to recommend about it. Jonathan Tulloch's writing takes you straig...
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A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the Galaxy
Name: Elen Green
07 July 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is a fabulous read and children looking for a book packed with adventure and laughs - and a spaceship or two - will love it. Gavin is an ordinary child who attracts unwanted attention in the form of Niki, his new neighbour, who ta...
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The Asparagus Bunch
Name: Elen Green
07 July 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
The Asparagus Bunch sees teenage Leon starting his seventh school, safe in the knowledge that, sooner or later, he will be starting a different school after he leaves this one under some cloud or another. Leon has what people see as an 'attitude problem' and this has landed hi...
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Coming Up For Air
Name: Morgan
07 July 2022;Genre: Friends and family
15-year-old Coco and her mother Min move from Soho back to her mothers home town. Coco is anxious but excited too. The idea of making new friends and developing her skills in making films excites her, however she is labelled with terms created by her parents. This encourages Coco to break thes...
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Nura and the Immortal Palace
Name: Jenny Caddick
05 July 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The most gloriously, richly illustrated cover of this book opens and takes the reader into a darkly intriguing and imaginative fantasy adventure that blends perfectly with a very real, central theme of child labour and the culture of exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. Set in India...
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Nura and the Immortal Palace
Name: Donna Burkert
05 July 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Nura wants what she can't have: money, wealth and power. Her days are long and difficult, mining for mica; it's a dirty and dangerous job but she does it to help her mum, to bring some extra money into the family, to help give her younger siblings a little extra. But what she really wants is t...
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This Wicked Fate
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 July 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Kalynn Bayron reinvented the myth of Cinderella shattering the patriarchal construct of the tortuous glass slipper into fragments in Cinderella Is Dead which was recently banned in Texas because of the power of its representation. She p...
