Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
13 February 2026;

Genre: Science Fiction

Anya's mum works alone on a small boat but she is always home by nine - until one stormy evening she doesn't return. Anya rows out to look for her and above the waves she sees a strange window of light which she feels compelled to touch. Suddenly, the storm falls eerily silent. Anya gets home...

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Name: Margaret Pemberton
12 February 2026;

Genre: Historical Fiction

What a wonderfully different look at the lives of young people during the Second World War. Author Judith Eagle gives us a chronological tour through the lives of three sisters, beginning with the outbreak of war and finishing in 1948, when the world is trying to regain some normality. The thr...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
09 February 2026;

Genre: Adventure

In Moonhaven, Jax and his twin sister, Jovi, with their friends, Esau and Forth enjoy breaking curfew and roaming the streets. Calling themselves the 'Moonlighters', they feel safe as there have been no werewolf attacks for years. However, when an attack happens, the friends find themselves pr...

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Name: Linda Brown
09 February 2026;

Genre: Science Fiction

Anya's mum still hasn't returned home from her top-secret experimental work, so she impulsively sets out on her boat to search for her. Anya is drawn to a strange light hovering above the ocean and reaches out to touch it . . . She wakes to a strangely calm sea and makes her way back home. How...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
30 January 2026;

Genre: Family & Home

12-year-old Tamara Cohen is struggling. Since the Hamas attacks on October 7th, nothing has been right. Her dad is worried about his brother and family living in Israel and Jewish children, including Tamara, have become targets of Jew hate at school. To cap it all Tamara has to move out of her...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
22 January 2026;

Genre: Funny Stories

Finn lives with his dad, younger sister Maisie (who is obsessed with unicorns) and his older brother Jonah, whose hobby is bullying and embarrassing Finn. As Finn puts it, he is "the filling in a sibling sandwich" and his life is one huge fail after another. In the very first chapter, he loses...

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Name: Jane Rew
14 January 2026;

Genre: Adventure

Roma Moreau's dual mission is to release a captive monkey into the wild and persuade her father, a French army captain, to let her study at medical school. Roma's French mother died in childbirth and she is determined that 'no other woman must die'. She is also accompanied on her mission by ta...

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Name: Donna Burkert
12 January 2026;

Genre: Family & Home

The Secrets of Wild Hill: Lottie's Dream by Olivia Tuffin is a delightful mix of desire, challenge and intrigue, all beautifully wrapped up in the world of horses. Lottie wants to ride more than anything in the world, she even deliberately failed her entrance test to the posh...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 January 2026;

Genre: Funny Stories

Finn is the middle child of three. His older brother Jonah is a bully and yet somehow very popular at school and his younger sister Maisie is a unicorn obsessed five-year-old. And Finn describes himself as a 'Fail Magnet'. He does seem to have a lot of disasters of epic proportions and is cons...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
07 January 2026;

Genre: Animals

Katie Ellis is in her second year at Paddock Grove; a boarding school with fantastic facilities for future equestrian stars. Katie has her beloved horse, Sheriff, with her, and has a great group of friends who love riding just as much as she does. When Katie is selected as captain of the Paddo...

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