Cleo by Lucy Coats
This is the first book (of many!) that I’ll be recommending as “positively teenage”. Publishers, do contact me if you have books you think a) fit the criteria (below) and b) I’ll love. Please don’t be offended if I say no – I’ll only read something I do think I’ll love. Authors, please don’t ask me to read yours: get your publisher to ask me. Asking me yourself makes me all kind of squirm.
CLEO by Lucy Coats
Cleo is a brilliantly gripping novel that imagines the teenage Cleopatra as she faces unimaginable dangers from treacherous human enemies and cruel, bloodthirsty gods on her terrifying journey to fulfil her destiny to be Queen of Egypt. Coats is an expert in myths and legends and a passionate story-teller and this shows.
Read this if you want a richly descriptive story, with roller-coasting emotions and a gripping, fast-paced plot to drag you away from your own worries for a time. There are blood and snakes and heat … and a boy…
Oh, and a sequel. Called Chosen[image error].
Buy Cleo here.
Positively Teenage book recommendations are for books which (in my opinion) fulfil these criteria:
(Exceptions are always possible but really would need to be exceptional)
Teenage (13+) central character, if fiction (12 at a push)
Aimed at readers aged 11-15
Not focusing on teenage “issues” or teenage mental illness, important as those things are to talk about
Showing young people tackling adventures or challenges that are not directly related to adolescence
A combination of inspiring, exciting and/or deep-thinking
Publishers are welcome to contact me to suggest a title but please don’t take offence if I say no. I will only recommend books I really love.
Authors, please leave it to your publishers to contact me…
Readers, do you have a favourite book you’d like me to recommend on Positively Teenage? See the criteria above and, if it fits, suggest it.
