Young Adult Book Reviews
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The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
Name: Emelia Helliwell
07 October 2021;Genre: Horror
The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth is a story set in Oxford, in England, in present day. Lindy is at college and lives with her mother in the family home after the tragic death of her father. Lindy is desperate for help to speak to her father and sets about trying to contact the...
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Vespertine
Name: Linda Brown
05 October 2021;Genre: Fantasy
This is the first time I have read anything by Margaret Rogerson and I question myself with... Why? This author knows how to engage the reader from the first page, truly not a dull moment in this story, I only wish I could have the next book in my hands! In Vespertine,...
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Zara Hossain Is Here
Name: Stephen Leitch
04 October 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
'So...where do I belong?' says Zara in this new novel by author Sabina Khan. 17 year Zara Hussain has a lot to think about. She's the only Pakistani Muslim in a conservative high school in Texas, dealing with racist bullying at school from Tyler, isn't an America citizen (despite living in the...
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Three Bullets
Name: HELEN STURCBECHER
04 October 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Three Bullets certainly has a lot going on. The main focus is war. The bloods (white supremacists) are trying to take over Britain. They will either kill anyone that they consider to be abnormal, or they will brain washing them into thinking that they are worthless and white's...
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Precious Catastrophe
Name: Linda Brown
04 October 2021;Genre: Supernatural
The sinister, mysterious story continues in this sequel book, it's not as gory as Perfectly Preventable Deaths but it's just as compelling. This author knows how to keep her audience engaged until the very last page... Precious Catastrophe begins a year after the tragic...
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Precious Catastrophe
Name: Katrina Waldron
30 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Precious Catastrophe is an amazingly spellbinding book containing many dark secrets and happenings. Following on from Perfectly Preventable Deaths (the first novel in the series), we see events pick up a year on from the last time we saw Maddy and Catlin. Told from the dual pe...
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The Edelweiss Pirates
Name: Kimberley Lawson
28 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
On his regular visits to his grandfather’s grave, Daniel notices an old man watching him from a nearby monument. One day, Daniel plucks up the courage to speak to the man; they begin to talk and the man tells Daniel his name is Josef Gerlach and the grave he has been visiting belongs to his br...
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Burn
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Patrick Ness is a writer who refuses to be pigeonholed and this mind-bending, genre-defying, completely gripping work of genius re-imagines the Cold War - but with dragons! In Burn, Sarah Dewhurst's father hires a dragon to help on their farm and thus save the family fr...
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T.I.G.E.R.S
Name: Lorraine Ansell
27 September 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer is now in her final year at St Aidan the Great boarding school and, with the shocking events from Longcross Hall as a vivid memory, tries to press the Abbott for further details on the F.O.X.E.S society. She is soon shocked to find out, however, that the huntin' shootin' and fishin' horr...
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The Ash House
Name: Julie Broadbent
27 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
A new boy arrives at the Ash House. He has no idea of his name or where he has come from. He is confused and in pain. He is given the name Solitude by the children in the house - Sol for short. He soon discovers that all of the children in the house are named after virtues and are all expected...
