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Sandringham Learning Resource Centre
Young Adult suggested reads
Dystopian Fiction:
Cormac McCarthy: The Road Margaret Atwood: The Testaments
A father and his son walk alone A thrilling sequel to The Handmaid’s
through burned America. Tale set in the terrifying Dystopian,
Nothing moves in the ravaged Gilead. You don’t need to have read
landscape save the ash on the The Handmaid’s tale to enjoy this
wind. It is cold enough to crack brilliant, pacy novel.
stones, and when the snow falls
it is grey. The sky is dark.
Patrick Ness: More Than This Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
A boy drowns, desperate and Hailsham seems like a pleasant English
alone in his final moments. He boarding school, far from the
dies. Then he wakes, naked and influences of the city. Its students are
bruised and thirsty, but alive. well tended and supported, trained in
How can this be? And what is art and literature, and become just the
this strange deserted place? sort of people the world wants them
to be. But, curiously, they are taught
nothing of the outside world and are
allowed little contact with it.
Angeline Boulley: Fire Keeper’s Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Daughter Set in a futuristic World State,
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal inhabited by genetically modified
member and the product of a citizens and an intelligence-based
scandal, Daunis has never quite social hierarchy, the novel anticipates
fit in, in her hometown or on huge scientific advancements in
the Ojibwe reservation. She reproductive technology, sleep-
wants to study medicine, but learning, psychological manipulation
her family is struck by tragedy, and classical conditioning that are
so she puts her future on hold combined to make a dystopian society
to care for her fragile mother. challenged by only a single individual.
George Orwell: 1984 Lauren Oliver: Replica
1984 is the story of one man, Turn the book one way and read Lyra's
Winston Smith. Hidden away in story; turn the book over and upside
the Record Department of the down and read Gemma's story. Lyra's
sprawling Ministry of Truth, story begins in the Haven Institute, a
Winston skilfully rewrites the building tucked away on a private
past to suit the needs of the island off the coast of Florida that
Party. Yet he inwardly rebels from a distance looks serene and even
against the totalitarian world he beautiful. But up close the locked
lives in, which demands absolute
doors, military guards, and biohazard
obedience and controls him
suits tell a different story.
through the telescreens.
Tracey Mathias: Silence is Also a Ernest Cline: Ready Player One series
Lie Wade escapes reality by spending his
Zara keeps secrets to stay safe, waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a
now that the hard-right Party is in virtual utopia where you can be
power. Because under the British anything, and live, play and fall in love
Born policy, she is an illegal, at on any of ten thousand planets. He is
risk of immediate deportation. obsessed by the lottery ticket concealed
She can't tell anyone who she is, within this alternate reality. OASIS
or what she knows: the truth founder James, has promised that
about how Sophie died. Stay control of the OASIS and his fortune will
silent, secret, safe. They're such go to the one who can solve the riddles
simple rules. Until she meets Ash. scattered throughout his creation.
Neal Shusterman: Dry Peadar O Guilin: The Call
The drought - or the Tap-Out, as
everyone calls it - has been going Nessa and her friends attend Boyle
on for a while now. Everyone's College to train for the most dangerous
lives have become an endless list time of their lives - The Call.
of don'ts: don't water the lawn,
don't fill up your pool, don't take Without warning, each one of them will
long showers. Until the taps run wake in a terrifying land, alone and
dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet hunted, with a one-in-ten chance of
street spirals into a warzone of returning alive.
desperation; neighbours and
families turned against each
other on the hunt for water.
Horror /Gothic
Josh Malerman: Bird Box Stephen King: Pet Sematary
Something is out there, When the Creeds move into a
something terrifying that must beautiful old house in rural Maine, it
not be seen, or else a person is all seems too good to be true:
driven to deadly violence. No physician father, beautiful wife,
one knows what it is or where it charming little daughter, adorable
came from. Five years later, a infant son-and now an idyllic home. As
handful of scattered survivors a family, they've got it all...right down
remains, including Malorie and to the friendly car. But the nearby
her two children. She dreams of woods hide a blood-chilling truth.
fleeing to a safe place.
Bram Stoker: Dracula George R.R. Martin: Fevre Dream
Jonathan visits Transylvania to Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish
help Count Dracula buy a house come true - he has built the Fevre
and makes a series of discoveries Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail
about his client. Incidents unfold: the Mississippi. Abner hopes to race the
an unmanned ship is wrecked off boat someday, but his partner is making
the coast; a young woman finds it hard for him to realise his ambition.
strange puncture marks on her Joshua York put up the money for the
neck; and the inmate of a lunatic Fevre Dream, but now rumours have
asylum raves about the 'Master' started about the company he keeps, his
and his imminent arrival. odd eating habits and strange hours.
Stephen King: The Outsider Daphne Du Maurier: Jamaica Inn
Mary crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica
A horrifying crime.
Inn, which has a desolate power, and
Water-tight evidence points to a
behind it's crumbling walls Patience
single suspect.
cowers before her brooding, violent
Except he was seventy miles
husband. When Mary discovers the inn's
away, with an iron-clad alibi.
dark secrets, the truth is more terrifying
Detective Anderson sets out to
than anything she could possibly
investigate the impossible: how
imagine, and she is forced to collude in
can the suspect have been both
her uncle's murderous schemes.
at the scene of the crime and in
another town?
Susan Hill: The Woman in Black R.L.Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr.
Arthur, a junior solicitor, attends Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
the funeral of Mrs Drablow, the The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's
sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh strange association with the 'damnable
House. It is at the end of a young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt
causeway. He glimpses a wasted through fog-bound London for a killer;
young woman, dressed in black. A and the final revelation of Hyde's true
creeping sense of unease grows, identity is a chilling exploration of
deepened by the locals’ humanity's basest capacity for evil.
reluctance to talk of the woman
and her purpose.
Charlie Higson: The Enemy series Ghost Stories: by various authors
Charlie Higson's The Enemy is A collection of spooky spine chillers,
the first in a jaw-dropping including "The Signal-man' by Charles
zombie horror series. Everyone Dickens; ''Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to
over the age of fourteen has You, My Lad'" by MR James; 'The Body
succumbed to a deadly zombie Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson;
virus and now the kids must 'The Masque of the Red Death' by
somehow keep themselves Edgar Allen Poe; 'The Canterville
alive. Ghost' by Oscar Wilde; "The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
Melinda Salisbury: Hold Back of Christopher Pike: The Midnight Club
Tide At the hospice was a group of five
Everyone knows what young men and women who called
happened to Alva's mother, all themselves the midnight club. Every
those years ago. But when dark night at twelve they met and told each
forces begin to stir in other stories – tales of intrigue,
Ormscaula, Alva must face a horror, of life and death.
very different future - and
question everything she
thought she knew about her
past…
Fantasy and Science Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship George R.R. Martin: Game of Thrones
of the Ring
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has Summers span decades. Winter can
gathered to him all the Rings of last a lifetime. And the struggle for the
Power - the means by which he Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of
intends to rule Middle-earth. All the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it
he lacks in his plans for a curse when King Robert bestows on
dominion is the One Ring - the him the office of the Hand. His honour
ring that rules them all - which weighs him down at court where a
has fallen into the hands of the true man does what he will, not what
hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Book#1 he must … and a dead enemy is a thing
of beauty. Book#1
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Malorie Blackman: Chasing the Stars
Dream of Electric Sheep Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are
World War Terminus had left the heading alone back to Earth following
Earth devastated. Bounty hunter the virus that completely wiped out
Rick Deckard stalks the ruins, in their family and the rest of their crew.
search of the replicants who are Nathan's ship is heading the opposite
his prey. He 'retires' them with way, but is attacked, leaving only a
his laser weapon and dreams of few survivors. Their lives unexpectedly
owning a live animal - the collide. Nathan and Olivia instantly fall
ultimate status symbol in a world deeply in love. But not everyone is
all but bereft of animal life.
pleased.
Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide
Songbirds and Snakes to the Galaxy.
This is the prequel to The Arthur Dent’s house gets demolished.
Hunger Games. It can be read The Earth follows shortly afterwards to
before or after The Hunger make way for a new hyperspace express
Games trilogy. It is a dystopian route, and his best friend has just
novel about a planet run by a announced that he's an alien. They are
tyrannical leader who keeps the hurtling through space with a book
inscribed with the words: DON'T PANIC.
population under control using
sinister Games.
Andy Weir: The Martian Namina Forna: The Gilded Ones
I'm stranded on Mars, no way Deka lives in anticipation of the blood
to communicate with Earth, in a ceremony to see if she can become a
habitat designed to last 31 days. member of her village. Different from
If the oxygenator breaks, I'll everyone else because of her unnatural
suffocate. If the reclaimer intuition, Deka prays for red blood so
breaks, I'll die of thirst. If the she can finally feel like she belongs. But
hub breaches, I'll explode. If on the day of the ceremony, her blood is
gold, the colour of impurity-and Deka
none of those things happen, I'll
knows she will face a consequence
eventually run out of food and
worse than death.
starve to death.
John Wyndham: The Day of the Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never
Triffids Letting Go
When a cosmic event makes Prentisstown isn't like other towns.
most of the Earth's population Everyone can hear everyone else's
blind, Bill is lucky to retain his thoughts in a constant, overwhelming
sight. People need help, some Noise. There is no privacy. There are
prey on others. But there’s no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt
another menace: the Triffids, unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of
mobile plants with lethal complete silence. Which is impossible.
stingers and carnivorous And now he's going to have to run...
appetites are set to take over.
Neil Gaiman: American Gods Tom Pollock: The City’s Son
After three years in prison, Hidden under the surface of everyday
Shadow Moon is free to go home. London is a city where wild train spirits
But hours before his release, his stampede over the tracks and glass-
beloved wife is killed in a freak skinned dancers with glowing veins light
accident. Numbly, he boards a the streets. When a devastating betrayal
plane where he meets an drives her from her home, Beth stumbles
into the secret city, where she finds
enigmatic stranger who seems to
Filius Viae, London's ragged crown
know Shadow and claims to be an
prince, just when he needs someone the
ancient god - and king of most. For an ancient enemy has returned
America. to the darkness under St Paul's Cathedral,
bent on reigniting a centuries-old war.
War and Historical Fiction
Pat Barker: Regeneration Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Yellow Sun
Scotland, 1917, and army In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a
psychiatrist William treats poor village, goes to work for
shell-shocked soldiers Odenigbo, a university professor and
including the poets Sassoon Olanna, a woman who has abandoned
and Owen, and mute Billy a life of privilege to live with him. Then
Prior, who communicates by Richard arrives, a writer, who falls in
pencil and paper. Rivers makes
love with Olanna’s sister Kainene. But
the men in his charge healthy
when the horror of war engulfs the
enough to fight. But then they
nation their lives pull apart.
must go back to the war.
Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road
Stephen arrives in France in 1910 to the Deep North
staying with the Azaire family and There were only two sorts of men:
falls for unhappily married those who were on the Line, and
Isabelle. With war coming, the those not. In the Japanese POW
relationship falters, and he goes camp on the Burma Death Railway,
to fight on the Front. His love for surgeon Dorrigo is struggling to save
Isabelle growing, he experiences his men from starvation, cholera and
the horrors of war. He cannot beatings, he receives a letter that
emerge unchanged. will change his life forever.
Sarah Waters: The Little Joseph Heller: Catch 22
Stranger At the end of World War II, Yossarian
Post-war, a doctor is called to a is frantic because lots of people are
patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. trying to kill him, including his own
The Georgian house is now in army which keeps increasing the
decline, its gardens choked with missions the men must fly to complete
weeds, its owners - mother, son their service. If he makes attempts to
and daughter - struggling to keep excuse himself from the missions then
pace. But are the Ayreses he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he
haunted by a dying way of life or is crazy, so doesn't have to; but if he
something more sinister? doesn't want to he must be sane and
has to. That's some catch...
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Christy Lefteri: The Beekeeper of
It is 1939. In Nazi Germany. Aleppo
Death has never been busier - Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an
and will get busier still. By her artist. They live simply, in the Syrian
brother's grave, Liesel's life is city of Aleppo. Then all they care for is
changed when she finds a book, destroyed by war. Forced to escape,
in the snow, The Gravedigger's they travel on, confronting the pain of
Handbook. This is her first theft. their own loss and danger. Above all -
Soon she is stealing from Nazi and perhaps this is the hardest thing
book-burnings, wherever she they face - they must journey to find
can find books. each other again.
Liz Kessler: When the World Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
was Ours In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne
In 1936, three friends spend a Frank and her family, fleeing the
perfect day together, unaware occupation, went into hiding in an
that around them Europe is Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next
descending into a growing two years Anne vividly describes in her
darkness, and that events will diary the frustrations of living in such
mean that they will be cruelly close quarters, and her thoughts,
ripped apart from each other. feelings and longings as she grows up.
With their lives taking them
across Europe, will they find
their way back to each other?
Ruta Sepetys: Ashes in the Snow Heather Morris: The Tattooist of
Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Auschwitz
Lithuanian girl living an ordinary I tattooed a number on her arm. She
life -- until Soviet officers invade tattooed her name on my heart.
her home and tear her family In 1942, Lale arrived in Auschwitz-
apart. Separated from her father Birkenau and was given the job of
and forced onto a crowded train, tattooing the prisoners marked for
Lina, her mother, and her young survival - scratching numbers into his
brother make their way to a fellow victims' arms to create what
Siberian work camp, where they would become one of the most potent
are forced to fight for their lives. symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line
to be tattooed, was a young girl. For Lale
it was love at first sight.
Thriller/Crime /Mystery
Sue Wallman: I Know You Did it P.D. James: An Unsuitable Job for a
Ruby finds a note in her locker Woman
saying "I KNOW YOU DID IT". Cordelia inherits the Pryde Detective
She's terrified that someone Agency. She is hired to investigate the
has found out she caused the death of Sir Ronald Callender’s son
death of Hannah when they Mark, a young Cambridge student
were toddlers - a secret that has found hanged in mysterious
haunted her. When first one, circumstances. She must delve into
then two students are found the secrets of the family and realizes it
dead, it looks like Ruby is being is more sinister than suicide.
framed by another killer.
Lee Child: Killing Floor Holly Jackson: A Good Girl’s Guide to
Jack Reacher jumps off a bus Murder
and walks into Margrave, Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie was
Georgia. He is the only stranger murdered by Sal Singh. Everyone
in town when they have their knows he did it. But having grown up
first homicide in thirty years. in the same small town, Pippa Fitz-
The police chief says he is an Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses
eyewitness and arrests him. the murder for her final project, she
Secrets leak out, and the body starts to uncover secrets. And if the
count mounts. real killer is still out there, how far will
they go to keep Pip from the truth …?
Patrice Lawrence: Orangeboy Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars
Marlon made his mum a They have been best friends since the
promise – never to go down the third grade, and go everywhere
wrong path. But when a date together, no-one can come between
ends in tragedy, he is hunted. them. Alison, the ringleader of the
They're after the mysterious Mr group and the other girls confide all
Orange, and they’ll use Marlon their secrets to her. One night, during
to get to him. Can he become a sleepover, Alison goes missing. Her
what he never wanted to be, to body is never found. The girls mourn
protect those he loves? her death but move apart after time,
assuming their secrets have
disappeared with Alison too.
Andy McNab: Street Soldier Chelsea Pitcher: This Lie will Kill You
London gang member Sean One year ago, someone died at a
Harker is down on his luck. party. Five teens played a part, and no
After a car heist gone wrong, he one has told the truth. Tonight, they
finds himself in a young arrive at a mansion in the hills, to
offender's institution . . . aged compete in a contest with a $50,000
only 16. prize. They realize they’ve been lured
Locked up and afraid, a there by a revenge seeker who wants
horrifying incident convinces the truth about what happened that
Sean to turn his life around. deadly night, one year ago.
M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and John le Carre: Tinker Tailor Soldier
the Quiche of Death Spy
Agatha has decided to take A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre,
early retirement and make a has infiltrated the highest ranks of the
new life in a Cotswold village. British Intelligence Service, almost
Entering the quiche-making destroying it in the process. And so
competition, she secretly visits former spymaster George Smiley has
a London deli. But the judge been brought out of retirement to
succumbs after tasting her hunt down the traitor at the very
quiche, and she is revealed as a heart of the Circus - even though it
cheat and potential poisoner. may be one of those closest to him.
M.A. Bennett: S.T.A.G.S. series Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder
Nine students. One deadly Club
weekend. Greer is trying to In a retirement village, four friends
settle into the sixth form at the meet up once a week to investigate
exclusive St. Aidan boarding murders. When a brutal killing takes
school. Then she receives an place on their doorstep, they find
invitation “huntin' shootin' themselves in the middle of their first
fishin'. The invitation is to spend live case. The Thursday Murder Club
the weekend at the manor of might be almost eighty, but they still
Henry de Warlencourt; the have a few tricks left. Can they catch
most popular boy at S.T.A.G.S. the killer before it's too late?
Harlan Coben: Shelter Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient
When tragic events tear him Express
away from his parents, 15-year- Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops
old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live the Orient Express in its tracks. The train
with his estranged uncle, is surprisingly full for the time of the
Myron. For a while, it seems his year, but by the morning it has one
train wreck of a life is finally passenger less. An American tycoon lies
improving - until his girlfriend, dead in his compartment, stabbed a
dozen times, his door locked from the
Ashley, goes missing without a
inside. Detective Hercule Poirot must
trace.
identify the murderer – in case he or she
decides to strike again.
General Fiction
Colson Whitehead: The Sally Rooney: Normal People
Underground Railroad Marianne is the young, affluent,
Cora is a slave on a cotton wallflower; Connell, the boy everyone
plantation in Georgia. They lead a likes, shadowed by his family’s
hellish existence, but Cora has it reputation and poverty. Unlikely
worse. She is an outcast and she friends, and later lovers, their
is approaching womanhood, beginnings in Ireland are swiftly
when even greater pain awaits. eclipsed by the world of student
Caesar, a slave from Virginia, tells Dublin. Their love becomes a
her about the Underground
battleground of power, class, and the
Railroad, they take the perilous
falsehoods they believe.
decision to escape to the North.
Kelly Reid – Such a Fun Age Nikesh Shukla: The Boxer
Emira is apprehended at a Told over the course of the ten
supermarket for 'kidnapping' rounds of his first fight, this is the
the white child she's story of amateur boxer Sunny. He
babysitting, setting off an feels isolated and disconnected in
explosive chain of events. Her the city so Sunny joins a boxing club
employer Alix, a feminist to learn to protect himself after a
blogger, tries to make it right. racist attack. He finds a mentor in
trainer Shobu, who helps him find his
When Emira meets a woman
place in the world. But racial tensions
from Alix's past, they set a
are rising in the city.
course that will upend
everything they think they
know.
Delia Owens: Where the Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach
Crawdad’s Sing. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence,
Rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have married that morning, arrive at a hotel
haunted Barkley Cove, on the in Dorset. They struggle to suppress
North Carolina coast. In 1969, their private fears of the wedding
when Chase is found dead, the night to come and, unbeknownst to
locals suspect Kya, the Marsh them both, the events of the evening
Girl. But Kya has survived alone in will haunt them for the rest of their
the marsh. When two young men
lives.
from town notice her wild
beauty, Kya opens herself to a
new life.
Kelly Yang: Parachutes Jenny Downham: Furious Thing
They're called parachutes: Lexi's angry. If only she could stop
teenagers dropped off in private losing her temper, her stepfather
homes to study in the U.S.A. would accept her, her mum would
while their wealthy parents love her again, and her stepbrother
remain in Asia. Claire finds herself too. She wants these things so badly;
living in a stranger's house, with she tries to push her fury down. But it
no one to tell her what to do for isn't easy. Her rage is there for a
the first time in her life. She soon
reason. And if she stays quiet - she
embraces her newfound
might just lose herself...
freedom, especially when the
most Jay, asks her out.
Adam Silvera: They Both Die at Christina R Hammonds: The Black Kids
the End Ashley and her friends
Death-Cast calls Mateo and spend more time at the beach than in
Rufus with bad news: they're the classroom. They love the sunny
going to die today. Total days of summer. But it all changes one
strangers, they're both want to afternoon in April, when four police
make a new friend on their End officers are acquitted after beating a
Day. There's an app for that - black man - Rodney King half to death.
called the Last Friend, and
Ashley's not just one of the girls. She's
Rufus and Mateo are about to
one of the black kids.
meet up for one last adventure -
to live a lifetime in a single day.
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango
Bovary Street
An erotically charged, and The story of girl growing up in the
psychologically acute portrayal Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For
of a married woman's affair. Its Esperanza, Mango Street is a
heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled landscape of concrete and run-down
by provincial life as the wife of a tenements where she discovers the
doctor. She seeks escape in realities of life - the fetters of class and
romance books, in spending gender, racial enmity, and the
and, then, in adultery. But even mysteries of sexuality, capturing her
her affairs bring her thoughts and emotions in poems and
disappointment. stories.
Charles Dickens: Great Danielle Jawando: And the Stars Were
Expectations Burning Brightly
Humble, orphaned Pip is When Nathan discovers that his older
apprenticed to work in the forge brother Al, has taken his own life, his
but dreams of being a gentleman. world is torn apart. Al was special,
One day, he finds himself with with many dreams. Sure that Al was in
"great expectations." In this tale
trouble, Nathan decides to retrace Al's
of crime and guilt, revenge and
reward, the characters include footsteps, meeting Megan. But will
Magwitch, the fearsome convict; either of them be able to handle the
Estella, beautiful but haughty; and truth about Al's death?
the jilted bride.
Yann Martel: Life of Pi Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
After the tragic sinking of a Working as a lady's companion, the
cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat orphaned heroine, Rebecca learns her
remains in the Pacific. The only place, until, she meets Maxim, whose
survivors are a sixteen-year-old proposal of marriage takes her by
boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra surprise. Whisked to his brooding
(with a broken leg), a female estate, Manderley, on the Cornish
orang-utan - and a 450-pound Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds
Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is Max a changed man. And the memory
set for one of the strangest and of his dead wife Rebecca is forever
best-loved stories. kept alive by the forbidding Mrs
Danvers . . .
Holly Bourne: We are all Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing
Lemmings and Snowflakes Evie is disillusioned about love since her
A novel about mental health and dad left her mum for another woman.
friendship. Camp Reset is a She’s given a copy of a
summer camp with a difference. book: Instructions for Dancing, and
A place offering a shot at follows a note to a dance studio, and
"normality" for Olive, a girl on the finds she has a strange gift. When a
edge, and her new friends, all couple kiss, she sees their whole
dealing with their own battles. relationship ahead. She thinks she
But Olive starts to wonder - knows everything about love until she
maybe it's this messed up world meets X.
that needs fixing, and not them.
Elizabeth Acevedo: Clap When George Lester: Boy Queen
You Land Life’s a drag until you try . . .
Camino lives for the summers Robin Cooper’s life is falling apart.
when her father visits the While his friends prepare to go to
Dominican Republic. But when
University, he is looking at a pile of
his plane should land, she arrives
at the airport to bad news. In New rejection letters from drama schools
York, Yahaira is told that her across the country and facing a future
father, has died in a plane crash. without the people he loves the most.
Separated by distance - and Papi's Everything seems like it's ending, and
secrets - the girls must face a Robin is scrabbling to find his place.
reality in which their father is
dead and their lives changed
forever.
Dean Atta: Black Flamingo Stephen Chobsky: The Perks of Being a
Michael waits in the stage Wallflower
wings, wearing a pink wig, pink Charlie is trying to navigate high
fluffy coat and black heels. school, a world of first dates and
One more step will see him mixed tapes, family dramas and new
illuminated by spotlight. friends. When all one needs to feel
He has been on a journey of infinite is that perfect song. He has a
bravery to get here, and he is unique perspective of the world
almost ready to show himself to around him, but it’s time to see what
the world in bold colours ... it looks like from the dance floor and
stop being a wallflower.
Sufiya Ahmed: Secrets of the Sue Cheung: Chinglish
Henna Girl Jo is a teenager growing up in 1980s
Zeba is like any other girl: Coventry with her little sister, older
having fun, waiting for exam brother, some very unlucky pets and
results and dreaming of the day bonkers parents. But Jo lives above
she'll meet her someone. But her parents' Chinese takeaway. And
her parents have other plans. In things can be tough - whether it's
Pakistan for summer, Zeba's unruly customers or the snotty
world is shattered and her popular girls who bully Jo for being
future is threatened by an different. All Jo dreams of is breaking
unthinkable,forced duty to free and forging a career as an artist.
protect her father's honour.
Bernadine Evaristo: Girl, F. Scott. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Woman, Other.
Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously
Girl, Woman, Other follows the
wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish
lives and struggles of twelve
parties at his West End mansion to
very different characters.
impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of
Mostly women, black and
his obsession, now married to bullish
British, they tell the stories of
Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island
their families, friends and
summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway,
lovers, across the country and
a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks
through the years.
on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair
deepens.
Emily M. Danforth: The Angie Thomas: The Hate You Give
Miseducation of Cameron Post Starr lives in two worlds: the poor
The night Cameron Post's parents neighbourhood where she was born and
died, her first emotion was relief. raised and her posh high school in the
Relief they would never know suburbs. The uneasy balance between
that hours earlier, she'd been them is shattered when Starr is the only
kissing a girl. Now living with her witness to the fatal shooting of her
conservative Aunt in small-town unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police
Montana, hiding her sexuality and officer. Now what Starr says could
blending in becomes second destroy her community. It could also get
nature to Cameron until she her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives
begins an intense friendship with Matter movement, this is a powerful and
the beautiful Coley Taylor. gripping YA novel about one girl's
struggle for justice.
Biographies
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang: Michelle Obama: Becoming
Bound Feet Western Dress
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection
Pang-Mei, a first-generation and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle
Chinese American, paints this Obama invites readers into her world,
unforgettable saga of a woman, chronicling the experiences that have
born in Shanghai at the turn of shaped her-from her childhood on the
the century to a well-to-do South Side of Chicago to her years as an
family, who continually defied executive balancing the demands of
the expectations of her class and motherhood and work, to her time
culture. spent at the world’s most famous
address.
Peter Crouch: How to be a Lee Lawrence: The Louder I Will Sing
Footballer On 28th September 1985, Lee
You become a footballer because Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was
you love football. When you are a wrongly shot by police during a raid on
footballer, you're suddenly in the her Brixton home. The bullet shattered
strangest, most baffling world. A her spine and she never walked again.
world where one team-mate 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the
comes to training in a bright red News falsely pronounced his mother
suit with matching top-hat, cane dead. In Brixton, it was the spark needed
and glasses, without any actual to trigger two days of rioting that saw
glass in them, and another has so buildings brought down by petrol
many sports cars they forget they bombs, cars torched and shops looted.
have left a Porsche at the train
station.
Barack Obama: A Promised Land David Attenborough: A Life on Our
Barack Obama tells the story of Planet
his improbable odyssey from
young man searching for his See the world. Then make it better. 'I am
identity to leader of the free 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's
world, describing in strikingly only now that I appreciate how
personal detail both his political extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I
education and the landmark was out there in the wild, experiencing
moments of the first term of his the untouched natural world - but it was
historic presidency-a time of an illusion. The tragedy of our time has
dramatic transformation and been happening all around us, barely
turmoil. noticeable from day to day - the loss of
our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.
Malala Yousafzai: I am Malala Maya Angelou: I know Why the Caged
When the Taliban took control of Bird Sings
the Swat Valley, one girl fought
for her right to an education. In Loving the world, she also knows its
2012, she almost paid the cruelty. As a Black woman she has
ultimate price when she was shot known discrimination and extreme
in the head at point-blank range. poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement
Malala Yousafzai's journey has and celebration. In I Know Why the
taken her from a remote valley in Caged Bird Sings, Maya
northern Pakistan to the halls of Angelou beautifully evokes her
the United Nations. She has childhood with her grandmother in the
become a global symbol of American south of the 1930s. She learns
peaceful protest and is the the power of the white folks at the other
youngest ever winner of the end of town and suffers a terrible
Nobel Peace Prize. trauma.
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