Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Extinction Trials
Name: Linda Brown
04 June 2019;Genre: Dystopian
This book grabbed my attention even before I started to read it... it has a mysterious reptilian cover that wills you to open the pages to begin and then, before you get to the first chapter the reader is greeted with a map, (love a map, of a new unexplored fantasy world) it may be a basic one, b...
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Lost
Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 June 2019;Genre: Bereavement
Alfie is a young boy of secondary school age, struggling because his mother has died. His entire world has literally been turned upside down and the things he used to care about seem unimportant now. Then he meets new girl, Alice, who is unlike anyone he's met before. Alice has also been going...
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Malamander
Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
Malamander is a seriously exciting and slightly creepy adventure, bringing a whole new world of a seaside town vividly to life. Herbie Lemon is the Lost and Founder of the Nautilus Hotel in Eerie-On-Sea, an aptly named seaside town.Then his life is turned upside do...
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Malamander
Name: Andrew Mullen
01 June 2019;Genre: Adventure
Malamander is a magical mystery story set in the seaside town of Eerie-on-Sea. Herbie Lemon works in the Grand Nautilus Hotel, returning lost things to people. This is where he meets Violet, who wants to find her parents, and enlists his help.The creepy seaside atmosphere that is c...
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Scavengers
Name: Megan Age 11
04 May 2019;Genre: Real life
The book is about a boy called Landfill who's lived his whole life as a scavenger. He was found as a baby and raised by an old man, Babagoo. The story follows Landfill as he makes a friend with an 'outsider'. Landfill is very unsure of this friendship as he has never experienced anything like it....
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Apple and Rain
Name: Lynn
02 May 2019;Genre: Family & Home
Apple's mother left when she was a toddler, leaving her with her grandmother. Eleven years later she returns with another daughter, Rain, and turns Apple's world upside down. Apple and Rain is beautifully written and the characters are believable. Written in the first p...
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Beauty Sleep
Name: Beverley Somerset
16 April 2019;Genre: Adventure
Teenager Laura Henley and her five year-old brother Alfie are both terminally ill with cancer. It's 1986, and there is no cure for their illness, so they are cryogenically frozen and will only be woken at a time when medicine has advanced enough for them to be saved. Forty years later, Laura is...
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The Gifted, The Talented and Me
Name: Daniel Katz
07 April 2019;Genre: Funny Stories
15 year old Sam is happy with his average, ordinary life at an average, ordinary school with his average ordinary friends in the average, ordinary town of Stevenage. So when Dad strikes it rich and Mum decides to move the family to Hampstead and send the kids to the North London School for the Gi...
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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...
