Blogs in November 2020

The Dead Queens Club 6th November 2020

Mean Girls meets The Tudors in Hannah Capin’s The Dead Queens Club, a clever contemporary YA retelling of Henry VIII and his wives (or, in this case, his high school girlfriends). Told from the perspective of Annie Marck (“Cleves”),...

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Windrush Child 5th November 2020

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger...

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Deadline 3rd November 2020

How can a pint-sized, smart-ass eighteen-year-old make his mark on the world from Nowheresville, Idaho—especially when he only has one year left to do it? When Ben Wolf learns his senior year of high school will be his last...

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The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods 19th October 2020

Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest of the world, is shattered after a terrible event. For the first time, Arty must...

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Piecing Me Together 14th October 2020

Jade is a girl striving for success in a world that seems like it’s trying to break her. She knows she needs to take every opportunity that comes her way. And she has: every day Jade rides the bus...

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