Young Adult Book Reviews
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Check & Mate
Name: Grace Age 15
01 November 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
I binged this book, its characters and plot add up together to make the perfect romance. Check & Mate is written from the perspective of Mallory Greenleaf, a girl struggling to support her family and who holds a vow to never play chess again. That is, until she enters a sm...
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You Could Be So Pretty
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 November 2023;Genre: Dystopian
What a fascinating, disturbing read. What initially appears to be a YA Handmaid's Tale is actually an only a slightly distorted snapshot of society today. Belle and Joni are polar opposites, living either side of The Doctrine that governs insular communities like their own. Subjugated f...
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Name: Clare Wilkins
27 October 2023;Genre: Horror
It's the final year at the Ballet Academy of Paris for an ambitious group of students intent on graduating into the cut-throat world of professional ballet. Laure Mensy is talented and single-minded but she is also a misfit in the privileged ballet world, where her skin colour and background c...
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The Black Air
Name: Liv Age 13
20 October 2023;Genre: Supernatural
I love this book.
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Kicked Out
Name: Eileen Armstrong
20 October 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Occasionally as a reader you come across characters you really care about in a book, characters so realistic and relatable you find yourself wondering and worrying about what happens to them when the final page is turned. Sami, Ali and Mark from Boy, Everywhere...
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Yours from the Tower
Name: Erin Quigley
20 October 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
As expected of her, Sally Nicholls, award-winning historical fiction author, brings the late Victorian era to life with this atmospheric, unputdownable epistolary novel. In an inspired Jane Austen-meets-Gossip Girl styled story, we meet Polly, Sophia and Tirzah, three best friends who,...
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Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors, Technicians, Scientists and Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the World
Name: Ruth Cornish
18 October 2023;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Engineers Making A Difference is a brilliant book using the careers of experts in their fields to illustrate different aspects of engineering in the 21st Century. After a section introducing the engineer, there is further information about the engineer's work and career path.<...
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The Boy You Always Wanted
Name: Rachel Bolton
18 October 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
From the shortlisted author of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes an original light and tender YA romcom. Set in America and drawing upon the traditions of the Chinese-Vietnamese community, The Boy You Always Wanted is a story with a more serious theme of feminism and...
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Babushka
Name: Clair Bossons
13 October 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
"A little babushka is made when you're young and something happens to you that leaves a scar…" I thought this was a really good way of imagining the way that we are formed from our past experiences. The main protagonist in Babushka, Cerys Williams, has left her sleepy w...
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Feast of Ashes
Name: Lorraine Ansell
13 October 2023;Genre: Dystopian
Adina lives in Eden Five, a sealed man-made environment following an environmental catastrophe. With only garden levels above ground, she spends her days as an apprentice techie, mending the systems that keep everyone alive. Free time with her family, in their small unit, is claustrophobic and...
