Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Insiders
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Callie, Ted, Zara and Nico are best friends. Callie and Ted, in particular, are very close. They've been friends since nursery school and Callie once called Ted her "nearly brother". Then Billy Feldon, the class clown, plays a joke on Ted and he's embarrassed in front of the whole school. Now...
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Friends Like These
Name: Morgan Harkin
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Set in the summer of 1983, an ambitious intern, Beth, sets out in New York - alone, and unaware of some aspects of the New York way of life. With a place to stay in the sweltering heat in an apartment infested with cockroaches, a keen Beth befriends an outgoing, chaotic Edie. Whilst all seems...
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Fake
Name: Jan Blagden
01 May 2022;Genre: Dystopian
Fake is Ele Fountain's latest title aimed at the middle grade reader. This story is set in a future that appears to be not too distant from our own. There is much in the lifestyles of the various characters that will be relatable to readers. It is, however, not just another boarding school sce...
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Our Sister, Again
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 May 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
Desperate to heal the family after her sister, Flora's, death, Isla signs her mother up for grief counselling sessions. The sessions turn out to be a front for a pioneering AI company called Second Chance. Using the digital footprint of the recently deceased and information obtained from exhau...
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Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale
Name: Jennifer Caddick
29 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale is a fabulously imaginative, intricately detailed and thrilling dystopian adventure, featuring the fabulously named Zeina Starborn. Just her name alone tells the reader that we are about to meet a unique, intrepid, ambitious character with a de...
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Blood to Poison
Name: Eileen Armstrong
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
17-year-old Savannah is angry, very angry. She's angry at the hundreds of injustices of everyday life in post-Apartheid South Africa. She's angry at the racial injustice and violence against women which surrounds her, at being cat-called in the street, at being treated differently from white m...
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Coming Up For Air
Name: Clair Bossons
23 April 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Coco, a bubbly 15-year-old, is an aspiring film maker who feels like she belongs under water. Her mother Min has lost her job as a producer for a large Soho production house, and they are now having to relocate to her hometown some 300 miles away from everything Coco loves and cherishes. Coco...
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The Secret Sunshine Project
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
Shortly after the death of their father, Bea, Riley and their mum leave their home in London to stay with their Gran in the country. Last summer, after Riley had come out as gay, the family had had the best day ever at London Pride and memories of this special, colourful day make their current...
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The Thief Who Sang Storms
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. It is home to Linnet, an alkonost, one of the bird-like people with magical songs who inhabit the island. Three years previously, alkonosts and humans had lived peacefully together on the island, but a tragic event which killed the queens of...
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Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
"Breathe. Just breathe", is the starting advice in Queer Up by Alexis Caught, an incredible, uplifting and honest book offering positive advice and information to LGBTQ+ teens and allies, who may have questions about their identity. Chapter themes include looking at coming out...
