Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Susan Wilsher
03 September 2020;

Genre: Family & Home

Tamarind is going to spend time in India with her mother's family at their huge mansion in the Himalayas. She never knew her mother who died when Tamarind was a baby and although she has many questions, she is nervous about meeting her extended family. But no one seems keen to give her answers...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 September 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air is the follow up novel to the graphic novel Kidglovz. It tells the story of what happens next to the characters from the graphic novel and even includes the book of Kidglovz as part of the story.Shoestring, previously a thief, i...

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Name: Kimberley Lawson
03 September 2020;

Genre: Historical Fiction

I, Ada is a fascinating fictionalised biography about a remarkable woman whose achievements are only in recent years becoming recognised, nearly 170 years after her death.Ada narrates her own story, from the ages of 5 to 21. In many ways, her story echoes the frust...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
03 September 2020;

Genre: Historical Fiction

A part fictionalised, part factual account of the childhood and teenage years of the daughter of Lord and Lady Byron, Ada (later Lady Lovelace who became the first computer programmer in the 1800's).Ada has a very strict upbringing yet is very privileged. She is a fascinating girl,...

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Name: Kelly Buxton
03 September 2020;

Genre: Adventure

I absolutely loved this book. It is one of those books that I simply couldn't put down. I felt I was on the adventure with Lotti, a feisty, determined and headstrong girl with a head of wild, red curls, who had lost her parents and was at the peril of her scandalous and wicked Uncle and Aunt;...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
27 August 2020;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Challenge Everything - An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to saving the planet is written by the young activist Blue Sandford. She was named by The Times as a 'British Greta Thunberg' and one of the UK's most impressive youth activists. It is the only official youth handbook from Extinction R...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
27 August 2020;

Genre: Poetry

The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems is tragically beautiful and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come.  Told completely through a range of poetic devices, this story stands out as original and moving as it interweaves the story of the main chara...

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Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 August 2020;

Genre: Historical Fiction

It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to have the same name and be a distant re...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
18 August 2020;

Genre: Fantasy

Raybearer, a debut novel by Jordan Ifueko, is a fast-paced, fantasy adventure tale. From the outset we are totally immersed into the world which our main character and heroine Tarisai inhabits.Tarisai has always longed to have a close relationship with her mysterio...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
06 August 2020;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Cinderella is Dead is an unusual book - a horror story based upon a well-loved fairy tale. In the fictional town of Lille, it is 200 years since Cinderella met Prince Charming and (apparently) lived 'happily ever after'. But for the girls and women living in Lille today, life...

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