Teenagers Book Reviews
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Jefferson
Name: Susan Wilsher
06 August 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
One morning, Jefferson Ponsonby-Smythe, a young hedgehog fond of order and routine, sets off to the hairdresser's to have his quiff trimmed. To his horror, he finds the dead body of Mr Edgar, the owner of Cut & Dye, and is seen, murder weapon in hand, by a witness who accuses him of the cr...
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Every Little Piece of My Heart
Name: Sharon Bolton
06 August 2020;Genre: Friends and family
For Sophie, the last five months have been doubly rubbish. Not only has her best friend Freya disappeared suddenly and is proving impossible to contact, but she has also been battling lupus and its effects on her body. When a parcel from Freya arrives, Sophie experiences a brief upturn in her...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
From the distinctive front cover, celebrating Sophia Grimmins as proud, beautiful, defiant, fierce and brown skinned, to her explosive story inside, Kalynn Bayron reclaims the iconic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm with her new YA fantasy, Cinderella Is Dead. Groundbreaking...
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Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Children of the Benin Kingdom is the debut novel by Dinah Orji, a British author of Nigerian heritage. This beautifully written story is immersed in accurate historical knowledge that takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure based around an ancient West African civilisation....
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Linda Brown
31 July 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
After reading Cinderella Is Dead, you will never look at the original Grimms fairytale in the same way ever again... It's been 200 years since Cinderella found her Prince Charming and they lived happily ever after, or did they? Sophia, our lead character, knows th...
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The Lost Soul Atlas
Name: Lucy Georgeson
23 July 2020;Genre: Social Issues
A boy awakens in the Afterlife, with a pocketful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious atlas to guide him as he sets out to piece together what happened, and try to find his way home...Twig is alone as a newly-made street kid after his dad goes missing. But when he me...
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The Fowl Twins (Paperback)
Name: Carol Carter
23 July 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
The Fowl Twins is the 'first book of the second cycle of Fowl Adventures', meaning we are back in the world of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer's long-running MG series about a child criminal genius and his adventures with the fairy realm, but this new series focuses on the exploits...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Jess Locke
23 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect, he second book in the Valentines series from Holly Smale, follows Faith, the 16 year old beautiful Valentine sister.Faith appears on the surface to have it all, looks, fame, a famous rock star boyfriend and a glittering future ahead of her. Yet al...
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The Ship of Shadows
Name: Beverley Somerset
16 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones in this rollicking tale of adventure! Aleja lives in Seville with her father, grandmother and two brothers, helping to run the family taverna. She spends her free time reading about explorers and dreams of following in their footsteps, especially th...
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Far From Perfect
Name: Elen Green
13 July 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Far From Perfect is the second book in The Valentines series about a family of actors - the Valentines - whose lives are constantly under the spotlight of a voracious press. Each book in the series by Geek Girl author Holly Smale tells the story of one of the...
