Teenagers Book Reviews
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Norah's Ark
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 August 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Adam Sinclair lives in a lovely house. He has a huge treehouse to himself, a private tutor, plenty to eat and loving parents who dote on him. However, since his recovery from Leukaemia, his overprotective mother wants to keep him safely at home so he is not able to make friends or return to th...
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Her Majesty's League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 August 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Winifred Weatherby is a not so ordinary school girl who suddenly finds herself catapulted into the world of spies. These spies are all young ladies, set up to provide support for Queen Victoria. A mysterious person called The Magpie is causing mischief and possibly putting royal lives in dange...
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Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism
Name: Julie Broadbent
17 August 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an author, a social activist, an engineer and a broadcaster. After visiting young people in schools, she asked them what they wanted to know about racism and social injustice. Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is the result of the conversations that...
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The Stolen Songbird
Name: Donna Ritchie
17 August 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
1940 is where the prologue to The Stolen Songbird begins, where we meet a boy and a girl (no names mentioned - which made it a mysterious beginning). Then a jump to 1959, where we meet a rabbit. The way the author describes this rabbit led me to believe that he had a very impo...
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Finally Seen
Name: Louisa Farrow
16 August 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Lina’s family went to America five years ago, but she stayed behind with her grandmother - until now! At last she’s going to join them! When she arrives, life in America is quite different from the way she imagined it (from watching The Simpsons and from her mother’s letters). At school, it’s...
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The Light Thieves
Name: Jenny Caddick
11 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
A clever adventure fantasy with a strange dystopian future at its heart. It is a story so relevant to our current time; themes of climate change and powerful, society controlling technology make the events seem all the more relatable, thought-provoking and easily imagined. The world has...
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Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism
Name: Louisa Farrow
10 August 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is an ambitious book: it sets out to help make the world a fairer place for everyone by investigating racism. Words from Yasmin Abdul-Magied and pictures from Aleesha Nandra work effectively together to explore three key questions: why rac...
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The Treasure Hunters
Name: Janet Fisher
10 August 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Poor Vincent skulks around at school trying not to be noticed or have anyone notice he is alone. But teachers have noticed he seems to have no friends and put him forward for an adventuring weekend away, involving tents and lots of walking! He is joined by Lena who has an ulterior motive for j...
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The Light Thieves: Search for the Black Mirror
Name: Jenny Caddick
03 August 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
The Light Thieves: Search for the Black Mirror is book 2 in The Light Thieves series and is a hugely ingenious, futuristic sci-fi fantasy adventure by Helena Duggan, author of the sinisterly brilliant <a href="/books/a-place-called-perfe...
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Mysteries at Sea: Peril on the Atlantic
Name: Beverley Somerset
02 August 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
12-year-old Alice Townsend is looking forward to the most exciting summer of her life. Her father is the Staff Captain on board the luxury ship Queen Mary, and Alice is joining him on a voyage across the Atlantic to New York. The ship's crew are aiming to cross the ocean in the fastest time to...
