Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Jenny CADDICK
03 February 2025;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

The Great Theatre Rescue is a stunning and exciting historical adventure story that takes place in 1930's London and evokes Dickensian themes of abandoned children and workhouse-harsh schools and villains. The Wren Theatre is home to yo...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
03 February 2025;

Genre: Real life

The Boy in the Suit is a story about a 10-year-old boy and his mum. It may sound like this is an everyday book with an everyday story line. Well, this is not your everyday 10-year-old boy. Solo and his mum, Morag, crash funerals for food! Unfortunately, his mum is experiencing...

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Name: Clair Bossons
31 January 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Mondays are Murder is a must-read for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. I absolutely loved this thrilling, unpredictable page-turner. It is packed with twists, turns and dead ends. Kay’s investigation takes us down unexpected paths, mak...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
16 January 2025;

Genre: Adventure

In Hunt for the Golden Scarab, we meet Sim Lockier and his mother, Callidora, and learn they have never lived anywhere for very long. At present they are based in London. Previously educated at home, Sim now attends school and has a best friend, Nelson. Life seems uneventful u...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
16 January 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is a lively and fantastically fast-paced and imaginatively created, portal-hopping fantasy adventure with a colourful, charming cast of vibrant (fabulously named) and utterly engaging characters! 12-year-old Peregrin...

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Name: Clair Bossons
16 January 2025;

Genre: Horror

The Zombie Project provides a fresh take on this genre where zombies might not just be a threat, but also a necessary part of the ecosystem. In a world where bees are extinct, zombies have become essential hosts for death flies to help with po...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
14 January 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, the final instalment of the rollicking Scarlett and Browne series, is another feast of high adventure and biting wit. Our daring duo have seemingly dispatched the evil Brothers of the Hand but the Faith House...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
13 January 2025;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

The eagerly awaited third book in Anthony Kessel's Don't Doubt The Rainbow series, American Mystery continues the detective adventures of hero Eddie Marble. This time the mystery stretches across t...

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Name: Emma Fidler
10 January 2025;

Genre: Horror

Finnegan Quick certainly has a vivid imagination and has some very creepy, fanciful dreams in The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. My Y6 boys (ages 10+) will love diving in to how Finnegan's dreams come to real life and how he must deal with them. There is some a...

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Name: Matty Age 12
09 January 2025;

Genre: Adventure

This book is amazing. I love it and it is the exact type of action book I read all the time. I have read it so many times because it is so exciting.

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