Young Adult Book Reviews
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Don't Doubt the Rainbow - The Five Clues
Name: Shirley Munn
04 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Murder, mystery, clues to solve, and a brilliant courageous character, what more could you want in a book? In The Five Clues, Edie finds a note, left by her Mum to her, which leads Edie to question her Mum's death. It's the first of five clues her Mother has left her to...
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Defy The Night
Name: Linda Brown
04 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
This wonderful YA author has done it once again in creating a realistic fantasy world with likeable characters. She has given the reader an action packed adventure that contains a star crossed romance and a corrupt kingdom. Defy The Night is full of tension that is born...
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The Forevers
Name: Ruth Cornish
03 September 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This brilliant YA book bluntly asks the reader: '30 Days Until The End Of The World - What Would You Do?' Despite the short period it covers, the story catapults the reader headlong towards catastrophe! The Forevers is part mystery and part romance whilst remaining a thriller...
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Feast Your Eyes on Food
Name: Hayley Summerfield
02 September 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Feast Your Eyes on Food by Laura Gladwin, is a food encyclopaedia of more than 1000 delicious things to eat. This beautiful book stipulates that eating is more than just tasting the food we eat; it explains how food feeds the soul and allows us to experience new cultures and t...
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Green Rising
Name: Linda Brown
02 September 2021;Genre: Dystopian
Hester is the daughter of the owner of Dalex, a huge company with huge earth damaging emissions, but she is also a 'Greenfinger', a person who can grow plants from within their body. When her dad asks her to head up a project using 'Greenfinger' teenagers, she meets, for the first time, with...
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Don't Doubt The Rainbow - The Five Clues
Name: Ruth Cornish
01 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Five Clues is a page turning mystery which immerses the reader in the world of ethics and science. Edie is secretly left a set of clues by her activist mother in the event of (what turns out to be) her suspicious death. She uses her natural intelligence and her close relat...
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Savage Island
Name: Emelia Helliwell
01 September 2021;Genre: Horror
Set in the UK, a group of friends are looking for an adventure before going off to university and happen to have one fall right into their laps. Is this a coincidence? This one even came with the chance to win a life changing sum of money. How could they not try? In Savage Islan...
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I Know You Did It
Name: Stephen Leitch
01 September 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Murder, secrets, school, friendship and lies all come together in this gripping page turning novel by Sue Wellman. For 17-year-old Ruby, starting a new school should be the fresh start she needs for focus on her exam year and leave the past behind her. But when she finds a note stuck to her lo...
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Perfectly Preventable Deaths
Name: Linda Brown
01 September 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Perfectly Preventable Deaths is a slow paced but totally engaging book. It has got it all; relatable main characters, witchcraft, mystery, suspense with a dash of romance. The author clearly knows her craft as she is fantastic at building an atmosphere that compels the reader...
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All American Boys
Name: Shirley Munn
29 August 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
All American Boys is written from the perspective of two different boys interlinked by circumstances yet divided by completely different cultures. Rashad, a black 17 year old who is attacked by a white policeman, when a woman trips and falls in front of him and the policeman a...
