Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Bird Singers
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The Bird Singers is a thrilling, intriguing and superbly sinister mystery - such a page turner! Laylah and younger sister Izzie reluctantly have to join mum on a last minute 'holiday' to the Lake District. Dad doesn't come (he is too busy working away - again). The girl...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Louisa Farrow
27 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper is feeling lost and anxious. His parents have been preoccupied with work since starting their own business and now they seem tired and upset too. His big sister Rosie hasn't come back from university to see him, even though she promised she would; apparently she has gone to a 'better pl...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Elen Green
26 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
The Hunt for the Nightingale is a book that stays with you for a long time, as you connect so completely with the child narrator, Jasper, as he sets out on a quest to find a nightingale and his missing sister, and on the way discovers new friends and the courage he didn't thin...
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Cool Technology
Name: Sharon Porter
20 January 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
'I loved this book. When my teacher gave it to me, she said I should just dip into the book and read the things I was interested in. I didn't expect to read all of it, but I did. I think she knew I'd really like it.' D aged 10 This is the first time we had come across this series of "Co...
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The Ship of Cloud and Stars
Name: Donna Ritchie
20 January 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Ship of Cloud and Stars is a brilliant story which is set during a time where girls and women had little say in society. An epic tale in which 'girl power' and determination can lead to dreams coming true. Nico, who lives with her mother, father and two brothers (wh...
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A Thunder of Monsters
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Patch, Barver and Wren are back in A Thunder of Monsters, their final adventure in the trilogy that began with A Darkness of Dragons. The end of the second book, A Vanishing of Griffins,...
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Dead or Alive (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 14)
Name: Lois Age 11
18 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Loved it, amazing!
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The City of Lost Dreamers
Name: Donna Ritchie
07 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
A girl without magic, who lives in a city where almost everyone else has. A father who works at the Mappers' Guild; the same building where the girl works as a clerk in training. A map ripped into three pieces by the witch Baba Yaga - so their city will never be complete again! I knew <...
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When the War came home
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Natty is forced to leave her home and go with her mother to stay at her cousin's farm in another Welsh village. There she gets to know her wider family, including Nery's who is around her age and Nery's older brother Huw. Huw, only seventeen, has come back from the trenches a changed person, h...
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The Rollercoaster Boy
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 January 2022;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
In The Rollercoaster Boy, Lisa Thompson gives us a beautifully written, sensitive account of a young boy's struggle to cope with his father's mental health problems, and combines it seamlessly with an exciting mystery. Todd is 12, and his sister Laurie is six. Their par...
