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Name: Lucy Georgeson
05 March 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
I read the prologue of this beautifully written verse novel, Run, Rebel, and was instantly hooked. Amber Rai wants to be an athlete, she feels truly at home on the track, completely free and totally at peace with everything around her when she's running.Running is...
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What Momma Left Me
Name: Tanja Jennings
26 February 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Serenity rises / through adversity to break / free of secret griefs./The reader journeys / through trials and tribulations / with Serenity,Confiding her thoughts / to her journal lets her tell / her story in versePoetry ignites / the soul as Serenity / disco...
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The Places I've Cried in Public
Name: Linda Brown
09 October 2019;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Holly Bourne has once again produced a story regarding young adult issues that is at times hard to read, but is emotive and totally honest... The story follows 16 year old Amelie (who is also the narrator of this emotive read) who has recently moved away from all that she knows due to her pare...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
01 October 2019;Genre: Myths & Legends
Selkies, kelpies, changelings, ceasgs, an evil faerie queen and a magic stone all feature in this mythical and magical adventure novel The Stone of Destiny by Caroline Logan.Alisa, an outcast from society because of her birthmark on her face and an alleged changeli...
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All Fall Down
Name: Erena Age 14
20 September 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Personally I did not particularly enjoy this book as I found it very sad and depressing, it is not the sort of book that I would typically enjoy. However it was a well written book with well developed characters that you become attached to throughout, meaning that when misfortune happens you feel...
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Wuthering Heights
Name: Hannah V
16 July 2019;Genre: Friends and family
The book is startling in its ability to draw readers away from the sentimental and capture them in a world of misguided passions. Unlike the time period, Bronte did not seek to instruct readers, particularly women, in what was expected of them, but that the flaws of a character are much more appe...
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Carry On
Name: Linda Brown
11 July 2019;Genre: LBGTQ+
Carry On is the first book in the Simon Snow series. Simon is a magician; not just any magician, he's the Chosen One! However, things are not that simple as Simon is not a confident magician and he's not very good with words, which is a bit of a problem when c...
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The Lost Tide Warriors: Storm Keeper Trilogy 2
Name: Linda Brown
11 July 2019;Genre: Magical Realism
A-maz-ing... from the very first page of The Lost Tide Warriors (the second book in the Storm Keeper trilogy), the author puts the reader through a catalogue of emotions, from laughing out loud, to holding your breath, then keeping you on the edge of your seat and then reducin...
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We Are Blood and Thunder
Name: Linda Brown
04 April 2019;Genre: Fantasy
We Are Blood and Thunder is a debut novel that grabs your attention from the very first page until the unexpected twist at the end. My advise is to take a few breaths in between as this book is an original and unique rollercoaster ride of a story. One of the best fantasy novel...
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We Are Blood and Thunder
Name: Jodie Brooks
04 April 2019;Genre: Fantasy
Not so long ago YA fantasies were all the rage, it seemed that a new novel was released in to the world every day and soon it became too much - a saturated market and interest seemed to dip. So it was with trepidation that I started to read We Are Blood and Thunder, expecting...
