Young Adult Book Reviews
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When the Sky Falls
Name: Carol Wright
15 October 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Oh wow! When the Sky Falls is the most emotional and exciting middle grade book that I have read this year! Take a moment to look at the front cover more closely. A fabulous illustration that gives you a peek at what lies inside that cover When the Sky Falls took into a part o...
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Tomorrow is Beautiful
Name: Clare Wilkins
15 October 2021;Genre: Poetry
Tomorrow is Beautiful is a carefully crafted anthology assembled by renowned verse novelist Sarah Crossan is an uplifting and positive collection that manages to steer away from sentimentality. Drawing from the works of well-known poets - Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman and M...
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Dark and Shallow Lies
Name: Sharon Bolton
12 October 2021;Genre: Supernatural
In Dark and Shallow Lies, Grey is back in the small town of La Cachette where she was born and brought back to every summer. Except this summer is different and she is not prepared for what she will encounter. Her best friend, Elora, has been missing for months and Grey knows...
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The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth
Name: Emelia Helliwell
07 October 2021;Genre: Horror
The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth is a story set in Oxford, in England, in present day. Lindy is at college and lives with her mother in the family home after the tragic death of her father. Lindy is desperate for help to speak to her father and sets about trying to contact the...
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Vespertine
Name: Linda Brown
05 October 2021;Genre: Fantasy
This is the first time I have read anything by Margaret Rogerson and I question myself with... Why? This author knows how to engage the reader from the first page, truly not a dull moment in this story, I only wish I could have the next book in my hands! In Vespertine,...
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Zara Hossain Is Here
Name: Stephen Leitch
04 October 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
'So...where do I belong?' says Zara in this new novel by author Sabina Khan. 17 year Zara Hussain has a lot to think about. She's the only Pakistani Muslim in a conservative high school in Texas, dealing with racist bullying at school from Tyler, isn't an America citizen (despite living in the...
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Three Bullets
Name: HELEN STURCBECHER
04 October 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Three Bullets certainly has a lot going on. The main focus is war. The bloods (white supremacists) are trying to take over Britain. They will either kill anyone that they consider to be abnormal, or they will brain washing them into thinking that they are worthless and white's...
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Precious Catastrophe
Name: Linda Brown
04 October 2021;Genre: Supernatural
The sinister, mysterious story continues in this sequel book, it's not as gory as Perfectly Preventable Deaths but it's just as compelling. This author knows how to keep her audience engaged until the very last page... Precious Catastrophe begins a year after the tragic...
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Precious Catastrophe
Name: Katrina Waldron
30 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Precious Catastrophe is an amazingly spellbinding book containing many dark secrets and happenings. Following on from Perfectly Preventable Deaths (the first novel in the series), we see events pick up a year on from the last time we saw Maddy and Catlin. Told from the dual pe...
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The Edelweiss Pirates
Name: Kimberley Lawson
28 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
On his regular visits to his grandfather’s grave, Daniel notices an old man watching him from a nearby monument. One day, Daniel plucks up the courage to speak to the man; they begin to talk and the man tells Daniel his name is Josef Gerlach and the grave he has been visiting belongs to his br...
