Young Adult Book Reviews
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Charlotte Says
Name: Jenna Nicolson
02 November 2023;Genre: Horror
Charlotte Says is a good book which I terribly enjoyed more than I expected and I rate this book a 5 out of 5.
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Girl (In Real Life)
Name: Bee Age 14
01 November 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Girl (In Real Life) life was an absolutely phenomenal read for me and I found the storyline and plot really exciting. In fact, I got so hooked onto it that I had to finish it once I'd started. All the characters are really well written so much so that when Eva cried about farm...
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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...
