Teenagers Book Reviews
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Mystery of the Night Watchers
Name: Beverley Somerset
08 July 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
It is 1910, and the forthcoming arrival of Halley's Comet is causing excitement and fear around the world. 12-year-old Nancy and her younger sister Violet have their lives suddenly turned upside down when their mother takes them off to Suffolk to visit a grandfather they had always thought was...
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Between Sea and Sky
Name: Sharon Porter
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
This is the first Nicola Penfold book I've read and I have to say I will be looking for more. This story is beautifully written, giving the reader a real feeling of knowing the characters. There are so many themes threaded throughout this story; sibling love, grief, family secrets, present/fut...
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One in a Hundred Thousand
Name: Catherine Purcell
08 July 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
The Unpredictability of Being Human is Linni Ingemundsen's first book and I have to say I love it so I was delighted to get my hands on her second book, One in a Hundred Thousand. And...it's another winner! One in a hundred thousand, that's how many people have Silver-R...
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The Summer We Turned Green
Name: Katrina Waldron
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
The Summer We Turned Green is an entertaining and appealing story set on a street facing demolishment for an airport expansion. The story follows 13-year-old Luke and his family. When his sister Rose moves across the road to join a commune of climate rebels, his parents and ne...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Imagine starting into a flower that only flowers once in its lifetime one moment and stumbling back in time before you were even born the next. Well for Elsie that is exactly what happens while she is visiting her Uncle John, who she has never met, to while away the long summer holidays....
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Elsie has to stay with her Great Uncle John, who lived in India when he was younger. He talks about the terrible thing he regrets doing when he was still a child. Elsie is catapulted back through time to India in the 1940s; can she put that mistake right? Or is it wrong to try and change time?...
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SkyWake: Invasion
Name: Stephen Leitch
01 July 2021;Genre: Adventure
Ever wondered what it would be like to be inside your favourite computer game? In SkyWake Invasion - the new sci-fi adventure novel from Jamie Russell - the worlds of the gamer and game are about to become uncomfortably close! It's just an ordinary day for teenage gamer Casey and her yo...
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My Big Mouth
Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 July 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The funny and poignant story is about 10 year old Jay, trying to deal with the emotional turmoil created by the unexpected and unexplained event of his dad leaving the family home. Jay is confused and feeling helpless and abandoned when (on making up an excuse for not doing his homework) it se...
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Girl (in real life)
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 July 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Eva Andersen has been famous since before she was born. She is the star of her parents’ YouTube channel 'All About Eva' which has been documenting her life since she was a baby. On the face of it, she seems to have a great life. Sponsors send the family countless freebies - clothes, food, elec...
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The House on the Edge
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 July 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Faith lives in a house on the edge of the cliff. There are cracks in the house and cracks in the family. Her father has left, and her mother is no longer functioning properly, clearly deep in depression. Faith looks after her mother, her brother Noah, and the house. She is not managing very we...
