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The Day War Came: the story behind the art with Rebecca Cobb

In April 2016, the British government refused entry and shelter to 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children. Hearing this devastating news, Nicola Davies, who had already been left devastated by the story of refugee children being turned away from schools because there were no chairs for them, wrote a poem which was published in The Guardian, and the …

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BLOG TOUR: Ruth Eastham presents her all time favourite War stories

Yesterday, I reviewed Ruth Eastham’s second novel, The Messenger Bird (you can find my review here). Today, I am very pleased to welcome Ruth Eastham to Library Mice as part of her blog tour. Ruth Eastham was born in Lancashire, England, and trained as a teacher in Cambridge. She has since worked in more than a …

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A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Glenda Millard (Templar) After a traumatic early life and a subsequent few years from foster home to foster home, Skip has had enough. Even school is no refuge, as even they do not seem to understand or embrace his love of art. So Skip decides to leave his old life behind and ends up living on …

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Tomorrow When the War Began

John Marsden(Quercus) When seventeen year-old Ellie Linton decides to “go bush” with her school friends for a final adventure before going back to school and leaves her home town of Wirrawee behind, she can’t know that she is also leaving life as she knows it behind. While the seven friends are having fun in an isolated idyllic spot …

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Shadow

Michael Morpurgowith illustrations by Christian Birmingham(Harpercollins Children’s Books) When Matt goes to spend the summer with his grandfather and his dog, he has no idea that he is very close to his friend Aman, who was suddenly taken from his home with his mother weeks ago and is now imprisoned in a nearby detention centre, Yarl’s Wood, …

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The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon

David Almond (text) & Polly Dunbar (illustrations)(Walker) Paul lives in the basement of a big tower block somewhere in the north of England. One day, Paul decides to have a day off school; he blames a tummy ache and headache, but really his parents and he know that Paul just cannot face school that day. …

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The Sunflower Sword

Mark Sperring (text) & Miriam Latimer (illustrations)(Andersen Press) A wannabe little knight is desperate to fight dragons with a trusty sword which he can whoosh and swoosh. But his mother has other ideas and instead of a shiny blade gives him a … sunflower. Slightly disappointed, the little knight still goes off to the top …

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Genesis

Bernard Beckett(Quercus) Anax aspires to join The Academy, the elite institution which runs the utopian society she has brought up in and with the help of tutor Pericles, she has been working hard to prepare for the gruelling admittance interview which lasts for five hours and focuses on one subject only. Anax has chosen to …