Blogs in June 2021

The Bone Sparrow 12th June 2021

Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story...

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Indigo Girl 8th June 2021

Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. When a stepfather and a baby half sister enter her life, she finds herself on the margins. Having recently contacted her biological...

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Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible 8th June 2021

Aiko Cassidy is fifteen and lives with her sculptor mother in a small Midwestern town. For most of her young life, Aiko, who has cerebral palsy, has been her mother’s muse. But now, she no longer wants to pose...

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Here the Whole Time 7th June 2021

‘I love this book!’ Rainbow Rowell ‘… a tender, funny, absolutely heart-holding novel about a boy who is forced to share his room with his lifelong crush for fifteen days. It’s a gay romance that would have changed my...

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The Lost Child of Chernobyl 6th June 2021

One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a bright light in the sky…Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two stubborn old ladies, Anna and Klara, refuse to leave....

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