Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Book of Stolen Dreams
Name: Beverley Somerset
12 November 2021;Genre: Adventure
Rachel lives with her older brother, Robert and their parents in the city of Brava in the land of Krasnia. Her father is a librarian and works in the North Brava Public Lending Library. When Rachel was just a baby, the Krasnia was taken over by the evil dictator Charles Malstain. He hated chil...
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Black and British: An illustrated history
Name: Sharon Porter
11 November 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
David Olusogu says Black and British: An illustrated history is the book he wishes he'd had to read when he was a child. What he hasn't realised is the massive impact his glorious book has had on the children in my class. We had been studying the Romans and Emperor Septimus Se...
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The Chime Seekers
Name: Hayley Summerfield
10 November 2021;Genre: Fantasy
The Chime Seekers is an enchanting new adventure story from Ross Montgomery. This haunting masterpiece is brimming with magic, quests, acceptance and friendship. The story allows us to step into a world of faerie tricks and hidden danger, a world of peril and adventure. <p...
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Adam-2
Name: Aaron Age 11
08 November 2021;Genre: Science Fiction
Adam-2 is the story of a robot with AI caught in a world where Funks (robots who are made to command and do human jobs) and humans are war. The war was created by Adam-1 who reprogrammed robots to kill humans after the humans abused and mistreated robots. Now Adam-2's task to...
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Great Britons: 50 Amazing People Who Have Called Britain Home
Name: Jane Rew
08 November 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
The line-up of famous and non-so-famous in Great Britons: 50 Amazing People Who Have Called Britain Home is fascinating; people from different periods, men and women, different nationalities, ethnicities and faith backgrounds, juxtaposed so that the reader never gets bored, ev...
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How Was That Built? The Stories Behind Amazing Structures
Name: Nicki Cleveland
04 November 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Have you every wondered how they built the Shard, the Pantheon or the Katse Dam? Or how structures are built underwater? Or why there are so many different types of bridges? Or how building will change in the future? Well, this book will answer all of those questions and more whilst introducin...
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Fledgling
Name: Jo Clarke
02 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Wow! Fledgling arrived at my door and I was unable to release it from my grasp! It is moving and mesmerising, weaving a hypnotic spell with eerie elements of gothic horror and steampunk inventiveness with celestial beauty. Set within the Bavarian forest, Fledgling has e...
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The Midnight Guardians
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 November 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Col is an evacuee. After the death of his father he has been sent to Buxton to live with his aunt and he is desperate to spend Christmas with his sister, Rose. He thought he had left behind the imaginary friends of his childhood but, unexpectedly, they come to life, bringing bewildering news....
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
Name: Linda Brown
01 November 2021;Genre: Romance & Relationships
This new title by the wonderful Stephanie Garber is a spin off from her amazing fantasy series Caraval. Believe me when I say, that this too leaves you wanting more. Loved it, couldn't put it down! Evangeline Fox has always believed in having a 'happy ever after'. However, life doesn't always...
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Fledgling
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Cassie Engel's home life is unusual. Her mother is an eccentric opera singer who spends most of her day singing and her father, broken by the war, takes refuge in drink and taxidermy. They live in a tall house built by her great grandfather on top of a tall rock, reached by a helter skelter ro...
