Teenagers Book Reviews
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Amari and the Despicable Wonders (Amari and the Night Brothers)
Name: Jenny Caddick
20 August 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Amazing Amari is back again and her third adventure, Amari and the Despicable Wonders, is utterly gripping from start to finish. Teenage magician Amari now faces adversaries, distrust and outright hatred from all sides; the new Prime Minister of the Bureau of Supernatural Inve...
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Storm of Lies
Name: Louisa Farrow
20 August 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Storm of Lies, the latest edge-of-your-seat thriller from Sophie Mackenzie, explores what might happen if a tsunami struck the south coast of England. . . Following her father's sudden departure from the family home, Hollie Norris is angry - and the anger makes her - by her o...
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The Fights That Make Us
Name: Louisa Farrow
19 August 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
Jesse has recently come out as non-binary and is finding it hard to feel they belong and are accepted in school, despite staunch support from their best friend, Simran, and their parents. They also need to find a good subject for a history project to impress their inspiring new teacher, Mrs Gr...
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Let Sleeping Gods Lie
Name: Hayley Summerfield
16 August 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Thiago De Moraes has brought us another brilliant instalment of Trixie De Santos in Let Sleeping Gods Lie. This hugely entertaining story celebrates different cultures and highlights the importance of family bonds. Trixie is back, and just when she thou...
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Electric Life
Name: Luke Age 11
14 August 2024;Genre: Dystopian
This book is the most thrill seeking book I could find - a full-on adventure of a too-good-to-be-true society.
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Wintour's Game
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 August 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Arriving with a bang, as a thrilling chase round London ensues, arch thief Alex Wintour is clearly not a girl to be messed with. She and seemingly smug rich-boy Cole are temporals - Oracles with the ability to see into the future but - certainly in uninitiated Alex's case - not the ability to...
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Reek
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 August 2024;Genre: Dystopian
Reek is a cli-fi (climate fiction) story about the planet following the release of deadly toxic pollution. The survivors live in airlocked safety where survival outside depends, ironically, on the use of oxygen tanks to pay for tank refills. Sparrow, the central charact...
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A History of My Weird
Name: Jenny Caddick
05 August 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
It is the start of secondary school for autistic Mo and the start of learning to navigate a whole new set of spoken and unspoken rules in life. Primary school friendships seem a million years away and Mo already feels exhausted and alienated by her new surroundings; "I'm so rubbish at life". M...
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My Family and Other Romans
Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
My Family And Other Romans by Marie Basting is an eccentric mix of a story based on Roman Britain and a 21st Century girl called Silvia. This brilliantly funny story entwines history with reality and the combination is nothing but captivating. Silvia is...
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Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace
Name: Rachel Bolton
01 August 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Hardit Singh Malik: World War One Flying Ace is the latest in the excellent series 'Voices' which focuses upon important but less well-known people in the past. It tells the story of Hardit Singh Malik, World War One's first Indian pilot. This is an excellent book on ma...
