Teenagers Book Reviews
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The Dream House
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 September 2021;Genre: Bereavement
Rex has gone to stay with his godfather, Sparky, but a lot has changed since his last visit... Rex has lost his dad and is struggling with overwhelming grief. He no longer talks much and even finds it hard to draw like he used to. However, with love and support, he gradually finds himself agai...
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Shadowghast
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Whilst other towns are celebrating Hallowe'en, the residents of Eerie-on-Sea enjoy Ghastly Night. Legend has it that people must light manglewick candles to prevent the Shadowghast from coming to steal their shadows. Every year, Dr. Thalassi and Mrs. Fossil retell the story behind the legend t...
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Catch Me If I Fall
Name: Ruth Cornish
17 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Set in Australia following a global disaster, Catch Me If I Fall is the story of twins living a privileged life in a safe community. The story unfolds as they discover the contrasting lives others are forced to live. Their previous egocentricity is challenged and their relatio...
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The Bewitching of Aveline Jones
Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Aveline Jones is on holiday with her mum in the village of Norton Wick. She is thrilled to discover her room overlooks a stone circle, known as The Witch Stones. With her usual enthusiasm for the slightly creepy and supernatural, Aveline cannot wait to find out more about the mysterious stones...
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We Have a Dream
Name: Jane Rew
10 September 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Each one of the 30 young people featured in We Have a Dream is an activist in one or more environmental spheres - politics, education, inclusivity and diversity, cultural recognition, climate activism, habitat loss, resource depletion. In a word, all are concerned with justice...
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Torn Apart - the Partition of India
Name: Jennifer Caddick
07 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Torn Apart - the Partition of India is a powerful and absorbing dual narrative story focusing on the fates of two young boys - one a wealthy Muslim and the other a poor Hindu street orphan - brought together by the horrendous violence, fear and division created by the 1947 par...
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The Ash House
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
There is a new boy at Ash House. He cannot remember his name, so he is given one, Solitude or Sol for short. He knows he is there because Ash House might cure him, but when he arrives, he discovers there are no adults and the children are looking after themselves. The children are ruled by the...
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The Haunting of Aveline Jones
Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Aveline Jones gets sent to stay with her aunt in the Cornish town of Malmouth. Aveline loves ghost stories, so the first thing she does is visit the local bookshop and buys a book of ghost stories. But something strange is happening. The book belonged to a girl who disappeared more than 30 yea...
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Don't Doubt the Rainbow - The Five Clues
Name: Shirley Munn
04 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Murder, mystery, clues to solve, and a brilliant courageous character, what more could you want in a book? In The Five Clues, Edie finds a note, left by her Mum to her, which leads Edie to question her Mum's death. It's the first of five clues her Mother has left her to...
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Defy The Night
Name: Linda Brown
04 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
This wonderful YA author has done it once again in creating a realistic fantasy world with likeable characters. She has given the reader an action packed adventure that contains a star crossed romance and a corrupt kingdom. Defy The Night is full of tension that is born...
