Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Marvellers
Name: Jenny Caddick
30 January 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Welcome to a world of Marvellers at the Arcanium Training Institute where young Marvellers and their unique powers across the globe attend school to learn and hone their special magical and mystical inherited talents . From a world within and beyond the clouds, the Institute majestically stand...
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The Mummy's Curse (The Butterfly Club 2)
Name: Hayley Summerfield
30 January 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
MA Bennett is back with the next book in The Butterfly Club series: The Mummy's Curse (The Butterfly Club, book 2). This time-travelling adventure takes readers from London in 1894 forward in time to Egypt in 1922. It is such an enthralling read, you will not be able to put it...
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The Storm Swimmer
Name: Nathan Cox
27 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
I knew this would be another great read after reading The Lightning Catcher. The Storm Swimmer by Clare Weze is a brilliant, imaginative adventure story with easily relatable themes, characters and settings. Clare always manages to d...
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Snot, Sneezes and Super-Spreaders
Name: Sharon Porter
17 January 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Snot, Sneezes and Super-spreaders has everything a young person might want to know about viruses including how they replicate, spread and infect their hosts. The chapter about AIDS is definitely more suited to those in high school or the very mature Year 6 child (ages 10+), so...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Louisa Farrow
17 January 2023;Genre: Real life
Here is my first 'must buy, must read' title for 2023! There are so many books about the Holocaust but for me, Fritz and Kurt was instantly compelling. It's based on the true story of the Kleinmanns, a working class Jewish family from Vienna, that was told for adults as 'The B...
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The Storm Swimmer
Name: Beverley Somerset
17 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Ginika has so much to look forward to. It's her last summer holiday before she goes to secondary school and, along with her best friend Alisha, she's preparing to take part in an important dance show. Everything changes when her parents are forced to leave their flat due to money troubles, and...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Kelly Buxton
16 January 2023;Genre: Real life
A story based on real-life. A narrative on harrowing events: The Holocaust. Fritz and Kurt is a story about a Jewish family, The Kleinman's, living in Austria during the 1930s; a time when their world was seemingly changed overnight and ripped apart....
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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
Name: Stephen Leitch
15 January 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Tasting Light is a collection of ten science fiction short stories. It's a gripping, exciting and thought-provoking collection of stories, brought together by A.R. Capetta and Wade Roush. You'll find themes of identity, technology, surveillance and suppression run through thes...
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Stand and Deliver!
Name: Nathan Cox
13 January 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
I knew from the first few pages this was going to be a brilliant, captivating read. Stand and Deliver! by Philip Caveney is a thrilling adventure packed with action, twists, turns and a few scary, brutal encounters. This story will grip the reader! The book is set at a...
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The Wildstorm Curse
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
Kallie is 13 years old. She is also dyslexic, but this does not prevent her from winning a play writing competition and getting a place at a summer theatre camp in the village of Merricombe. Once there, strange things start to happen; the villagers do not want the old theatre used and some peo...
