Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Midnight Guardians
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 November 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Col is an evacuee. After the death of his father he has been sent to Buxton to live with his aunt and he is desperate to spend Christmas with his sister, Rose. He thought he had left behind the imaginary friends of his childhood but, unexpectedly, they come to life, bringing bewildering news....
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Name: Linda Brown
01 November 2021;Genre: Romance & Relationships
This new title by the wonderful Stephanie Garber is a spin off from her amazing fantasy series Caraval. Believe me when I say, that this too leaves you wanting more. Loved it, couldn't put it down! Evangeline Fox has always believed in having a 'happy ever after'. However, life doesn't always...
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Fledgling
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Cassie Engel's home life is unusual. Her mother is an eccentric opera singer who spends most of her day singing and her father, broken by the war, takes refuge in drink and taxidermy. They live in a tall house built by her great grandfather on top of a tall rock, reached by a helter skelter ro...
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Shadow Town
Name: Ruth Cornish
01 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Shadow Town is primarily an adventure filled with fantasy and mystery. It is also a powerful thriller with psychological layers which become apparent towards the end of the book, enabling the reader to make connections between the protagonist's real life and the imaginary worl...
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Cardboard Cowboys
Name: Jan Blagden
31 October 2021;Genre: Friends and family
It was refreshing to read Brian Conaghan's Cardboard Cowboys because it tackles the issue of negative body image from a boy's point of view. We are inside the head of Lenny, who is a loner, not necessarily from choice. All the angst and anxiety that he feels is expressed in a...
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Beyond the Mountains (A Clock of Stars, Book 2)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
31 October 2021;Genre: Fantasy
In Beyond the Mountains, the second book in A Clock of Stars fantasy, Imogen and Marie have returned from the magical land through the door in the tree. The trouble is, that no-one believes them, least of all their Mum and...
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Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas
Name: Donna Burkert
29 October 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Many moons ago, Christmas wasn't the magical time of year that it is today. There was no one to deliver presents, no one for children to write to, no tinsel, no reindeers, no magic. Until of course, a young girl called Blanche, who lived all alone under a bridge, met a mystical old lady, who g...
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Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas
Name: Hayley Summerfield
28 October 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Tinsel by Sibeal Pounder is a brilliant new Christmas book with a twist. The story is seeped with powerful themes of friendship, feisty girls, gender roles and adventure. This refreshingly original story on the origins of Santa is hilarious and heart-warming and crammed full o...
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A Tale Dark & Grimm
Name: Donna Burkert
27 October 2021;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
If you want to know what really happened to Hansel and Gretel, how they ended up in that forest and what happened to them after they survived that first trial, then this is the book for you. The dark and gruesomely twisted stories of Hansel and Gretel will keep readers turning pages in disgust...
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The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre
Name: Rhiannon Cook
27 October 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Trapped in a Parisian orphanage, mysterious circumstances surrounding his parent's deaths, Bastien Bonlivre follows in their footsteps as a writer and is determined to discover what really happened to his mother and father. Monsieur Xavier, appointed as the new director of the orphanage under...