Young Adult Book Reviews
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Goodbye, Perfect
Name: Joanna Hewish
17 May 2018;Genre: Friends and family
Wow! Powerful, engaging and a hard-hitting. Sara Barnard (author) once again has created an incredible tale that feels so real, I thought I was reading the real account. Goodbye, Perfect tells the tale of Eden and her best friend Bonnie. Eden (narrator) has her life com...
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SLAY
Name: Clair Bossons
30 April 2018;Genre: Adventure
Think Buffy the Vampire slayer meets The Vamps. A fantastic blend of fantasy fiction and contemporary teen. This is light-hearted demon slaying peppered with witty one-liners with a few music references thrown in. The cover is eye catching and I have already had students asking to borrow it ha...
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I Am Traitor
Name: Ruby B
23 April 2018;Genre: Science Fiction
Amy is too young to die. When danger calls, Amy is scared. I don't blame her. Especially when aliens are abducting teenagers from all over the world. She is one of them. Will Amy have to face the threat before it is to late? Join Amy as she embarks on a thrilling journey through space. Read her...
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Savage Island
Name: Ellen King
18 April 2018;Genre: Horror
This is a thrilling, action-packed horror story that steadily ratchets up the tension as a group of teenagers try to make it through a deadly geocaching challenge on a remote island. Savage Island a perfect addition to Stripes' Red Eye horror series and will be devoured by 14+ readers who love ho...
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The Truth About Alice
Name: Eileen Armstrong
08 March 2018;Genre: Real life
Everyone has A LOT to say about Alice, and none of it good, but how much of it true? If the rumours flying around her High School and her tiny, claustrophobic, everyone-knows- everyone-else's-business, town are to be believed, then popular girl Alice not only slept with two guys at one party b...
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Name: Clair Bossons
08 March 2018;Genre: Real life
Bluebelle, aka Big Bones, loves food. Every chapter of Big Bones has a food theme, starting with one of my personal favourites - crumpets! This is the food diary that Bluebelle was encouraged to keep following the appointment with the nurse that her mum dragged her to.<b...
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Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Name: Lucy Georgeson
01 February 2018;Genre: Historical Fiction
This wonderfully atmospheric historical novel captures perfectly the fight for women's suffrage through the eyes of three very different and opinionated young women. 17-year-old rich and clever Evelyn is furious that she is expected to marry and have children when she would rather go to univer...
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Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Name: Eileen Armstrong
01 February 2018;Genre: Historical Fiction
Some novels are written to be read and not reviewed and this is most definitely one of them! Essentially a book about suffragettes aimed at young adults, Things a Bright Girl Can Do is so very much more than charting as it follows the stories of three very different girls from...
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Quests for Glory
Name: Linda Brown
11 January 2018;Genre: Fantasy
The School for Good and Evil was at first meant to be a trilogy and what a wonderful, adventurous trilogy it turned out to be. In fact, so good that the author decided to continue this amazi...
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Moonrise
Name: Jane Welby
06 December 2017;Genre: Family & Home
Moonrise is an amazing book. Sarah Crossan has managed to craft something beautiful out of the horror of death row; she tackles difficult issues of life and death sensitively and honestly. Using her customary poetry style and from the viewpoint of Joe Moon, she interweaves the...
