Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Ship of Doom
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 May 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
When Luna is forced to attend a meeting in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, she expects an evening of boredom. But it turns out to be full of surprises. The Butterfly Club is a society with a secret - they travel in time to 'borrow' technology from the future. With two travell...
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Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs?
Name: Nathan Cox
02 May 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs? by Simon Packham is a captivating story with a highly important and emotive theme portrayed by relatable characters and settings. This story excellently highlights the feelings and emotions people, in particular children, face surrounding eviction,...
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Rumaysa: A Fairytale
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 May 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
At first glance this is another version of the familiar fairy tales, but this is cleverer than that. Taking the fairy tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, this book turns them on their heads and links them together as one story, featuring Rumaysa, the girl locked in a tower....
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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...
