Young Adult Book Reviews
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Name: Ruth Cornish
21 October 2020;Genre: Bereavement
A hugely enjoyable YA debut from Richard Lambert. The Wolf Road is a story about Lucas, the central character and only survivor of a car accident which killed his parents, causing his life to change completely. It is extremely atmospheric with rich detail of the new home and c...
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Name: Lucy Georgeson
20 October 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Boy, Everywhere charts the perilous journey from Damascus, Syria to Manchester for Sami and his family. 13-year-old Sami loves his friends, football, PlayStation and iPad. But a bombing in a shopping mall changes his life and Sami and his family flee their comfortable h...
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Name: Dan Katz
14 October 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
14 year old Moa has spent his whole life as a slave on a Jamaican sugar cane plantation, and has recently been 'seasoned' (whipped to within an inch of his life for the first time) by the overseer. With his scars still throbbing, Moa is invited to become the youngest member of Tacky's rebellio...
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Name: Eileen Armstrong
11 October 2020;Genre: Poetry
We know that reading 'gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are' and never has that been more true than in these unusual covid-times. Fortunately for all of us, the brilliant people at Pan Macmillan have published this timely, themed anthology of 130 bright, brave poems about w...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Supernatural
Harriet Stoker visits derelict Mulcture Hall to take photographs for a college project. While exploring, she trips and falls to her death. She 'awakes' to find that she is a ghost, and is surrounded by the ghosts of other young people who have all previously died in the building. Harriet befri...
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Name: Linda Brown
12 September 2020;Genre: Fantasy
This fantasy story, which has been inspired by Hungarian myths and legends, does not disappoint. From the enticing front cover the reader is drawn in and then plunged into a world where magic is discouraged, mags are put to death; and a haunted castle is forever surrounded with poisonous rain......
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Name: Abbi McInnes
11 September 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Gray Langtry longs to be a normal teenager. However, that is pretty impossible when your Mum is the Prime Minister, and home is Number 10 Downing Street. The book starts with Gray at a party: she has lied to her mum about where she is. Leaving the party, she is pursued by paparazzi, and has to be...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
03 September 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
I have categorised this lovely book as historical fiction, but it covers so many themes - family, friendship and sport among others.Kicking Off: Dick, Kerr Girls begins in 1917, during the First world War. Hettie Blakeford is 15, she lives with her mother, father a...
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Name: Kimberley Lawson
03 September 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
I, Ada is a fascinating fictionalised biography about a remarkable woman whose achievements are only in recent years becoming recognised, nearly 170 years after her death.Ada narrates her own story, from the ages of 5 to 21. In many ways, her story echoes the frust...
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Name: Ruth Cornish
03 September 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
A part fictionalised, part factual account of the childhood and teenage years of the daughter of Lord and Lady Byron, Ada (later Lady Lovelace who became the first computer programmer in the 1800's).Ada has a very strict upbringing yet is very privileged. She is a fascinating girl,...
