Young Adult Book Reviews
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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...
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Moxie
Name: Samira
05 December 2017;Genre: Real life
It was very well written and had a good plot! I would recommend people to read it and I enjoyed this book.
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Bog Child
Name: Francesca Age 14
22 November 2017;Genre: Historical Fiction
It's a good book and a quick read
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Moxie
Name: Kay Hymas
22 November 2017;Genre: Real life
Time to fight like a girl. The only Zoella Book club Choice to be nominated by Zoe Sugg! Moxie is a sweetly fierce 'feminist' novel which is funny and uplifting in equal measure. Vivian Carter, an 'average' American student, in an average American high school. Like many girls throughout the hist...
