Young Adult Book Reviews
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S.T.A.G.S.
Name: Lorraine Ansell
05 August 2017;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer MacDonald has won a scholarship to the exclusive STAGS but soon realises that the school is run not by the Friars but by the Medievals, a group of six beautiful but deadly sixth formers. With no friends and shunned by even her room mate, Greer makes the mistake of accepting 'The Invitation'...
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Caraval
Name: Linda brown
05 July 2017;Genre: Fantasy
Wow, what a debut novel. This book is a rollercoaster of a story. It had me gripped right from the start. Caraval tells the story of a young girl called Scarlett who dreams of witnessing a week-long magical performance called Caraval. However, Scarlett has never left the tiny...
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Here Be Witches
Name: Charlotte Age 13
26 May 2017;Genre: Adventure
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The Hate U Give
Name: Alison Tarrant
27 April 2017;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
The Hate U Give is an incredible book with realistic characters and a carefully thought out plot. Based in America, it follows the story of Starr as she deals with being a witness to violence from a police officer. It is based on the Black Lives Matter movement and brings into...
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The Nest
Name: Victoria Dilly
06 April 2017;Genre: Family & Home
I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading The Nest; it sounded a little creepy and I thought I may not enjoy it as 'creepy' isn't normally my genre of choice! However, I was soon hooked on what turned out to be a very well-written story, which kept you on the edge of...
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The Hate U Give
Name: Catherine Purcell
13 March 2017;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
I went into this book blind, so to speak. I hadn't read a single review of it - though there were plenty, and all of them congratulatory and effusive in their praise. I didn't know the film rights had already been sold and the main character as good as confirmed. I was unaware that the book wa...
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The Witch's Tears
Name: Samantha Pett
24 December 2016;Genre: Fantasy
Sequel to The Witch's Kiss, I found The Witch's Tears a much more compelling read. The story focuses on Merry and her brother Leo in the aftermath of the events of The Witch's Kiss as they struggle to come to terms with their individual losses. Merry is reluctantly being trained by the Coven,...
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The Witch's Kiss
Name: Samantha Pett
23 December 2016;Genre: Fantasy
Merry is a 16-year-old with the usual family and school struggles except she's also an untrained witch, youngest in a bloodline of witches stretching back centuries. Unexplained dreams soon materialise into a 1,500-year-old family curse and love story linked with a powerful wizard who, with the...
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What's a Girl Gotta Do?
Name: Karen Poolton
17 October 2016;Genre: Real life
Lottie is very angry with the way she is treated just because she is female. After a disturbing sexual harassment incident on the way to college, she resolves to start a project, highlighting and standing up to every single incidence of sexism she comes across for a whole month. Althoug...
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Name: Janet Fisher
06 October 2016;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The Secret of Nightingale Wood is a story about grief at the loss of sons, and its effect upon the mothers principally but also upon a girl left to fend for herself with the aftermath. Henrietta and her family, mother, father, baby Piglet and Nanny Jane have moved to a...
