Teenagers Book Reviews
Filter:
-
The Doughnut Club
Name: Jenny CADDICK
16 May 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
A gently charming and warm-hearted family-focused debut story which features the summer holiday of 12-year-old Quinn, her two mothers and half-sibling, Olly. The Doughnut Club centres around Quinn's exploration of what to means to be a donor-conceived child bu...
-
The Binding Spell
Name: Linda Brown
12 May 2025;Genre: Supernatural
The Binding Spell is a dark, enchanting YA novel that weaves witchcraft, family secrets, and ancient superstition into a compelling story set in the mist-shrouded village of Weir Hinny. 19-year-old Morgan, long haunted by nightmares, believes she has finally outgrown her terri...
-
Wild Esat
Name: Clare Wilkins
09 May 2025;Genre: Social Issues
When a bus journey ends in tragedy for Ronny's friend Maz, Ronny's Mum decides enough is enough. Fearful that her son will be the next person to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, she uproots them from East London to East Anglia and they begin a tentative new life in Norwich. Disc...
-
Shrapnel Boys
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 May 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they are evacuated to the countryside. Ronnie's mum cannot bear to be parted from her boys and Ronnie has considered himself the man of the house...
-
The Binding Spell
Name: Lorraine Ansell
07 May 2025;Genre: Supernatural
When Morgan and her family are forced to move back to her mother's hometown, she has no idea of the history and trouble that await. Village talk of the Pouka King that dwells in the woods, and a niggling voice in her head, add to Morgan's unease. Meeting a local boy who seems...
-
Becoming Grace
Name: Ruth Cornish
05 May 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres and Becoming Grace by Hilary McKay does not disappoint. McKay fictionalises the story of Grace Darling and her family who were custodians of the Outer Farne/Longstone lighthouses at Longstone Rock on the Outer Staple Islands nea...
-
The Night House Files (1) - The Deadsoul Project
Name: Ruth Cornish
05 May 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
What a roller coaster of a book! The Dead Soul Project is an exciting, page-turning, science fiction thriller featuring the main characters, youngsters, Kyle and Lauren Dempsey, battling against the monstrous results of a supposed alien virus in their housing development, Alpi...
-
The Doughnut Club
Name: Louisa Farrow
02 May 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Coming of age stories have always explored feelings of not fitting in - but how might those feelings be complicated if you didn't really know who one of your biological parents was, or how many half-siblings you might have? Quinn is 12 years old and donor-conceived. She loves her family...
-
Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words
Name: Jenny CADDICK
24 April 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This fantastic non-fiction collection features 22 fascinating, inspirational and incredibly honest and open true stories from a huge variety of disabled writers. Sharing their experiences of being young and growing up, of the challenges, achievements, stereotypes and expectati...
-
Not That Kind of Hero
Name: Sam
21 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
If you know a young YA romantic, then this is the book for them this summer. Not That Kind of Hero by Alexia Casale is a lovely read. The story has a dual perspective for Orla, the story's main protagonist, as part of a blended family, alongside her internal s...
