Teenagers Book Reviews

Name: Clair Bossons
09 September 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

If you enjoy fantasy, magical worlds and LGBTQIA+ stories, Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe will appeal. CB Lee creates a world of spellcasting that is filled with wyverns, pixies and imps. A world where universes collide and portals can open. The story follows Kat a...

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Name: Sam
08 September 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Picking up the story right where book 1 finished, Wintour's Fate is a super fast-paced, all-action adventure. However, if you haven't read the first book in this trilogy, then you may well find yourself rather lost for the first four or so chapters. Wintour's Fate jumps...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
05 September 2025;

Genre: Horror

This pacy debut novel - the first in a new series - is a celebration of Caribbean culture and folklore and a riff on the duppy stories of the region. Jermaine longs to be a horror movie director so, with the help of his friends, he is spending his Easter holidays shooti...

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Name: Alice Drury
04 September 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

No Refuge by Patrice Aggs and Joe Brady is the gripping sequel to the graphic novel No Country. Set in a world not too dissimilar from our own, but in the midst of war, it tells the story of one family’s escape from England when the time comes...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 September 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

When Will's father dies, he and his mother, Mary, have to move in with Will's Uncle Claude and his cousin, Jon. Treated like servants by Claude, who never loses an opportunity to remind them that they are only there because of his 'kindness', they are relieved to leave his home for a while whi...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 September 2025;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Phoebe loves art and drawing and wants to be an artist like her beloved grandmother. But her grandmother is getting more and more forgetful and Phoebe can't help wondering if it is somehow her fault that things are deteriorating so quickly. In a fit of anger, she lashes out at one of her grand...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
25 August 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Based on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Khudadad Khan, My Soul, A Shining Tree is told from different perspectives. Lotte is a Belgian farmgirl whose home is a small farm in the village of Gheluvet, near Ypres in Flanders. Her l...

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Name: Rachel Bolton
25 August 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

I learnt so much about India during WW2 from this new story by Sufiya Ahmed. It would be an excellent addition to a school library who wanted to add to their collection of wartime stories. It's 1943 and 12-year-old Hasan is sent to Calcutta to stay with his grandfather as his parents ca...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
25 August 2025;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Not only is Jellybean an excellent book, it is an essential read for anyone who is suffering from EBSA (Emotionally Based School Avoidance), their family or their friends. The narrative portrays the anxiety Ellie experiences regarding school in a way that will be instantly rec...

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Name: Margaret
22 August 2025;

Genre: Magical Realism

Serena has just moved to a new house and a new school, miles away from her friends in London. She just wants to be accepted by her new classmates, but then she discovers that she is able to see events in the future; needless to say this makes her extremely popular at school, especially with th...

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