S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) Please be aware that Perfectly Reflected is the second in a trilogy of books and that there are some spoilers in this review! To enjoy Perfectly Reflected fully, please read Small Blue Thing first (you can find my review here) Perfectly Reflected picks up a few days after the end of Small …
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TimeRiders
Alex Scarrow(Puffin) Liam O’Connor (1912), Maddy Carter (2010), Sal Vikram (2026). Three teenagers, living decades away from each other are suddenly thrown together in a small room near Brooklyn Bridge, in September 2001. They have one things in common: all three should have died, all three were given the choice to turn away from their …
Unhooking the Moon
Gregory Hughes(Quercus) When their father dies unexpectedly, Marie-Claire (better known as the Rat) and her older brother Bob find themselves orphaned. Desperate not to be separated, they would rather walk from the Canadian prairies to downtown New York to find their only remaining family member, an uncle they have never met, than to be discovered and taken in by …
Shadow
Michael Morpurgowith illustrations by Christian Birmingham(Harpercollins Children’s Books) When Matt goes to spend the summer with his grandfather and his dog, he has no idea that he is very close to his friend Aman, who was suddenly taken from his home with his mother weeks ago and is now imprisoned in a nearby detention centre, Yarl’s Wood, …
Time Train to the Blitz
Sophie McKenzie(Usborne) When Joe, Scarlett and their dog Pippy come aboard the mysterious luminous train that has appeared, out of nowhere, in the middle of the park, they are not sure where it will take them. They certainly do not expect to go back in time, but soon find themselves amidst an air raid in 1941 London. It …
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon
David Almond (text) & Polly Dunbar (illustrations)(Walker) Paul lives in the basement of a big tower block somewhere in the north of England. One day, Paul decides to have a day off school; he blames a tummy ache and headache, but really his parents and he know that Paul just cannot face school that day. …
Quarry
Ally Kennen(Marion Lloyd Books) Scrappy is going nowhere fast. His mother has walked out on the family, his grandfather is losing the plot, his father is grumpy and obsessed with his scrap yard with little time for his family and his sister is frantically saving for a deposit on a flat so she can be out …
The Truth is Dead
Marcus Sedgwick (editor)(Walker Books) Have you ever imagined what the world would be like if things had worked out differently during significant moments in history? If a minute little detail had been changed? The smallest change could, after all, alter the world as we know it. This is what this anthology tackles with eight short …
You Against Me
Jenny Downham(David Fickling Books) Mikey’s sister is stuck indoors terrified to go outside after she was allegedly assaulted. Ellie’s brother is on bail, charged of her assault. When Mikey decides to take revenge, he decides to turn up at the Parkers’ house looking for Tom. But it is Ellie he meets and everything changes. This …
Small Blue Thing
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) When seventeen year-old Alex finds an unusual looking bracelet while she tries to rescue a swan caught on wire on the banks of the Thames, she thinks nothing of wearing it. It’s so pretty, and so unusual. But soon strange things start to happen: the apparition of a young man wearing a …