Fiction Reviews for ages 12 and up
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Novels written for children, young people, and the young at heart can truly can take us to the most extraordinary places. Historical fiction takes us back in time whereas fantasy takes us to places that have never even been, Some of the titles reviewed below will be attractive to adult as well as children. For more fiction for older readers please go to the Series, Features, and Bookish Calendar sections of the journal. |
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- A Journey to the New World:The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, 1620
For ages 12 to and up - A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
For ages 12 to and up - A Sea So Far
For ages 12 to and up - A season of gifts
For ages 12 and up - Airborn
For ages 12 and up - Anastasia's Secret
For ages 12 and up - Angel on the Square
For ages 12 and up - Ark Angel
For ages 12 and up - Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England 1587-1588
For ages 12 and up - Ashes of Roses
For ages 12 and up - Away laughing on a fast camel
For ages 14 and up - Away to the Goldfields
For ages 12 and up - B for Buster
For ages 12 and up - Battle of Britain: Harry Woods, England 1939-1941
For ages 12 to and up - Blitz: The Diary of Edie Benson, London 1940-1941
For ages 12 to and up - Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky&quo
For ages 14 and up - Castle in the Air
For ages 12 and up - Celandine
For ages 12 and up - Christmas After All: The Great Depression Dairy of Minnie Swift
For ages 12 to and up - City of Masks
For ages 12 and up - Crispin: The Cross of Lead
For ages 12 and up - Cupcake
For ages 14 and up - Daniel X: Watch the Skies
For ages 12 and up - Death Ray
For ages 12 and up - Deeper
For ages 12 and up - Discovering Pig Magic
For ages 12 and up - Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic
For ages 12 and up - Domenic’s War: A story of the Battle of Monte Cassino
For ages 12 to and up - Downsiders
For ages 12 and up - Dragon Flight
For ages 12 and up - Dragon Slippers
For ages 3 to 6 - Dragon Spear
For ages 12 and up - Dreaming Anastasia
For ages 14 and up - Eagle Strike
For ages 12 to and up - Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941
For ages 12 to and up - Endymion Spring
For ages 12 and up - Enna Burning
For ages 12 to and up - Eye of the Wolf
For ages 12 and up - Eyes like stars
For ages 12 and up - Eyes of the Emperor
For ages 12 and up - Finishing Becca: A story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
For ages 12 and up - Flight #116 Is Down
For ages 12 to and up - Flight to Freedom
For ages 12 and up - Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal Flying Corps 1915-1918
For ages 12 to and up - Freefall (Tunnels)
For ages 12 and up
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- Ghostgirl
For ages 14 and up - Gilgbert and Sullivan set me free
For ages 12 and up - Gingerbread
For ages 14 and up - H.I.V.E. (Higher Institute Of Villainous Education)
For ages 12 to and up - Hard Times For Jake Smith: A Story of the Depression Era
For ages 12 and up - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
For ages 12 and up - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
For ages 12 and up - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
For ages 12 and up - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
For ages 12 and up - Hattie Big Sky
For ages 12 and up - Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker
For ages 12 and up - I had seen Castles: A Novel
For ages 14 and up - I walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch T
For ages 12 and up - I, Coriander
For ages 12 and up - Icecore: A Carl Hobbes Thriller
For ages 12 to and up - Jacob I have loved
For ages 12 and up - Jacob’s Ladder
For ages 12 to and up - Kiki Strike Inside the Shadow City
For ages 12 to and up - Knocked out by my Nunga Nungas
For ages 14 and up - Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden 1638
For ages 12 and up - Leonardo and the Death Machine
For ages 12 and up - Leonardo's Shadow Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
For ages 12 and up - Life as we knew it
For ages 12 and up - Lily's Crossing
For ages 12 and up - Lost
For ages 12 and up - Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
For ages 12 and up - Loving Will Shakespeare
For ages 12 and up
M - R
- Maggie’s Door
For ages 12 to and up - Marie, dancing
For ages 12 and up - Marlfox
For ages 12 to and up - Memories of Summer Audio
For ages 12 and up - My Name Is America: The Journal Of Sean Sullivan, A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
For ages 12 and up - My Tudor Queen: The Diary of Eva de Puebla, London 1501-1513
For ages 12 and up - Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times
For ages 12 and up - Nightrise: Book Three of the Gatekeepers
For ages 14 to and up - Nory Ryan’s Song
For ages 12 to and up - Operation Red Jericho: The Guild of Specialists Book One
For ages 12 and up - Outside Beauty
For ages 12 and up - Pagan in Exile
For ages 12 to and up - Petals in the ashes
For ages 12 and up - Point Blank
For ages 12 to and up - Princess Academy
For ages 12 and up - Private Peaceful
For ages 14 and up - Ranger's Apprentice: Book Four - The Battle for Skandia
For ages 12 and up - Ranger's Apprentice: Book One – The Ruins of Gorlan
For ages 12 and up - Ranger's Apprentice: Book Two – The Burning Bridge
For ages 12 and up - Ranger’s Apprentice: Book Three – The Icebound Land
For ages 12 and up
S - Z
- Sand dollar summer
For ages 12 and up - Scorpia
For ages 12 to and up - Shakespeare’s Scribe
For ages 12 to and up - Shakespeare’s Spy
For ages 12 and up - Shooting the Moon
12 and up - Shrimp
For ages 12 and up - Skeleton Key
For ages 12 to and up - Skybreaker
For ages 12 and up - Small-Minded Giants
For ages 14 and up - Snakehead
For ages 12 and up - So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll and Irish Mill Girl
For ages 12 and up - Special Operations: Dogfight
For ages 12 and up - Standard Hero Behavior
For ages 12 and up - Stormbreaker
For ages 12 and up - Streets of Gold
For ages 12 and up - Sucks to be me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)
For ages 14 and up - Swan Town: The Secret Journal of Susanna Shakespeare
For ages 12 and up - The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
For ages 12 to and up - The Book of Story Beginnings
For ages 12 to and up - The Book Thief
For ages 14 and up - The Carbon Diaries 2015
For ages 14 and up - The Carbon Diaries 2017
For ages 14 and up - The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: Here there be dragons
For ages 12 to and up - The City of Ember
For ages 12 and up - The Clone Codes
For ages 12 and up - The Crystal Palace: The Diary of Lily Hicks, London 1850-1851
For ages 12 and up - The Cupid Chronicles
For ages 12 and up - The dead and the gone
For ages 12 and up - The Edge Chronicles: Midnight over Sanctaphrax
For ages 12 and up - The Edge Chronicles: The Last of the Sky Pirates
For ages 12 and up - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
For ages 12 and up - The Great Railroad race: The Diary of Libby West
For ages 12 and up - The House at Pooh Corner
For ages 4 and up - The House of the Scorpion
For ages 12 and up - The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia 1863
For ages 12 and up - The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing Minnesota 1905
For ages 12 to and up - The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps Khe Sanh, Vie
For ages 12 to and up - The Journal of Rufus Rowe: A witness to the Battle of Fredericksburg
For ages 12 to and up - The Killing Sea
For ages 12 to and up - The King of Mulberry Street
For ages 12 and up - The Last Dragon
For ages 12 and up - The Lighthouse Land
For ages 12 to and up - The Loud Silence of Francine Green
For ages 12 and up - The Magician
For ages 12 and up - The Medici Seal
For ages 14 and up - The Midwife’s Apprentice
For ages 12 and up - The Miner’s Daughter
For ages 14 and up - The Night Journey
For ages 12 and up - The Puppeteer's apprentice
For ages 12 and up - The roman conspiracy
For ages 12 and up - The Sacrifice
For ages 12 and up - The Shakespeare Stealer
For ages 12 and up - The Shrouding Woman
For ages 12 and up - The Sisters Grimm: The Problem Child
For ages 8 to 12 - The Sky Inside
For ages 12 and up - The Stoneheart Trilogy: Book One – Stoneheart
For ages 12 and up - The Summoning
For ages 12 and up - The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed’s Life
For ages 12 and up - The Supernaturalist
For ages 14 and up - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
For ages 12 and up - The Truth About Sparrows
For ages 12 and up - The Two Loves of Will Shakespeare
For ages 14 and up - The Underland Chronicles: Book Four - Gregor and the Marks of Secret
For ages 12 to and up - The Upstairs Room
For ages 12 and up - The Valley of Secrets
For ages 12 and up - The Various
For ages 12 and up - The very ordered existence of Merilee Marvelous
For ages 12 and up - The wedding planner's daughter
For ages 12 and up - Thirteenth Child
For ages 12 and up - Tide of Terror
For ages 12 and up - To the Edge of the World
For ages 12 and up - Triss
For ages 12 to and up - Tunnels
For ages 12 and up - Unwind
For ages 14 to and up - Uprising
For ages 12 and up - Victory
For ages 12 and up - Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Anne Brady, 1912
For ages 12 and up - Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Anne Brady, 1912
For ages 12 and up - What Katy Did Next
For ages 12 and up - When You Reach Me
For ages 12 and up - World's Afire
For ages 12 and up - Yankees on the doorstep: The Story of Sarah Morgan
For ages 12 and up - Young Bond: Book One – Silverfin
For ages 12 and up - Young Bond: Book Two – Blood Fever
For ages 12 to and up
