Young Adult Book Reviews
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The Flag Never Touched the Ground
Name: Matthew Lappin
04 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
'Freedom would never simply be given. It had to be fought for. And taken.' The life of a Black slave in 1863 was one fraught with segregation, discrimination, exploitation and freedom that could only be dreamt of. William Harvey Carney's beginning to life was no different.William,...
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Game Changer
Name: Clare Wilkins
11 February 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Ash Bowman is one of the stars of his American football team. An all-round decent guy with a tight group of friends and a good head on his shoulders. But his neatly ordered and unremarkable world is jolted when he takes a heavy tackle in a game and finds himself in another dimension, a slightl...
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Name: Catherine Purcell
10 February 2021;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
First off let me confess something...in a rare moment of cleaning - I usually just sweep the room with a glance - I've tidied away my notes on this read. I say 'tidied' but I think my enthusiasm with the task may have led to a total recycling of them as they're nowhere to be found since that e...
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Name: Ruth Cornish
10 February 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Gilded Ones is brilliant! Gripping, full of threat, peril and totally absorbing, this debut novel has been written by new author, Namina Forna, to represent heroic girls.The Gilded Ones is a fantasy based in another world dominated by powerful men. The characte...
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The Gilded Ones
Name: Clair Bossons
04 February 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Gilded Ones is an amazing debut novel by Namina Forna. I was fortunate to receive a limited-edition book proof from Usborne and it had a stunning golden cover!This fantasy fiction is set in Otera, an ancient patriarchal empire. Women are forced to wear masks in...
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Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 February 2021;Genre: Real life
Everyone has met a Lexi, 15 years old and angry at seemingly everything and everybody. Lexi lives with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend John and her 6 year old half-sister Iris. She desperately wants John's love and approval but always seems to fall short of his sky-high ideals, especially com...
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Magpie
Name: Janet Fisher
04 February 2021;Genre: Family & Home
This deceptively slight book tells a story I sincerely hope that most children will never encounter. Alice and her family are on the run from an abusive man whom her mother became involved with, and returned to several times, until he hit Alice which was the wake- up call for her mother. They...
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Name: Eileen Armstrong
02 February 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
2020 will be remembered for many reasons - but especially because it was the year in which the urgent need for putting Black British history back in the curriculum was finally recognised, and the drive to make it both mainstream and mandatory gathered huge momentum as a result of the Black Lives...
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Concrete Rose
Name: Dan Katz
30 January 2021;Genre: Real life
17 year old Maverick Carter is an average gang kid in late '90s America - happy to coast along, chilling with friends, playing video games and basketball and listening to Tupac. He’s also struggling at school, his gang lord father is in prison, and he is secretly selling drugs to help his moth...
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Name: Lucy Georgeson
22 January 2021;Genre: Romance & Relationships
A funny and life-affirming take on all the big stuff you experience through puberty: love, sex, death, family, intergenerational friendships, heartbreak, kittens and kisses that turn the whole world upside down.Love is for Losers is six months in the life of Year 11 Phoebe, self-pr...
