Young Adult Book Reviews
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Yours from the Tower
Name: Erin Quigley
20 October 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
As expected of her, Sally Nicholls, award-winning historical fiction author, brings the late Victorian era to life with this atmospheric, unputdownable epistolary novel. In an inspired Jane Austen-meets-Gossip Girl styled story, we meet Polly, Sophia and Tirzah, three best friends who,...
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Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors, Technicians, Scientists and Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the World
Name: Ruth Cornish
18 October 2023;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Engineers Making A Difference is a brilliant book using the careers of experts in their fields to illustrate different aspects of engineering in the 21st Century. After a section introducing the engineer, there is further information about the engineer's work and career path.<...
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The Boy You Always Wanted
Name: Rachel Bolton
18 October 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
From the shortlisted author of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes an original light and tender YA romcom. Set in America and drawing upon the traditions of the Chinese-Vietnamese community, The Boy You Always Wanted is a story with a more serious theme of feminism and...
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Babushka
Name: Clair Bossons
13 October 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
"A little babushka is made when you're young and something happens to you that leaves a scar…" I thought this was a really good way of imagining the way that we are formed from our past experiences. The main protagonist in Babushka, Cerys Williams, has left her sleepy w...
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Feast of Ashes
Name: Lorraine Ansell
13 October 2023;Genre: Dystopian
Adina lives in Eden Five, a sealed man-made environment following an environmental catastrophe. With only garden levels above ground, she spends her days as an apprentice techie, mending the systems that keep everyone alive. Free time with her family, in their small unit, is claustrophobic and...
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And Don't Look Back
Name: Emelia Helliwell
13 October 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
To start with in And Don't Look Back I found that, although the author had written the story well, I took time to get truly invested. However, once I did, it was an amazing read that kept me guessing the entire time. I had to keep reading just to find out how it was going to e...
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Toxic
Name: Clair Bossons
13 October 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
I really enjoy contemporary fiction where there is a dilemma or issue to resolve. Toxic is the first book that I have read about a toxic friendship, rather than a relationship, and it was a really interesting read. There is a trigger warning from the author at the beginning du...
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The Black Air
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 October 2023;Genre: Supernatural
Caitlin Aspey has always been in thrall to the legend of the Long Byrne witches; Jane Hollingworth and Rose Ackroyd, the last and most infamous of eighteen teenagers hung on the moor, sentenced to death on spurious charges of witchcraft. Haunted by the suicide of her mother, she lives an isola...
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HappyHead
Name: Ark Age 13
12 October 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
HappyHead is genuinely one of the best books I've read. It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me feel so many emotions at once. It was extremely engaging, I just could not put it down! Be warned that this book does contain mature language and themes, as well as violence an...
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Play
Name: Eileen Armstrong
10 October 2023;Genre: Personal Growth
Play brilliantly captures the voices and stories of four very different teenage boys. Bored of their small town life and what little it seems to offer, the friends invent their own games to pass the time until they can get away, scoring points against each other. When one of t...
