Sarah Crossan(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Kasienka’s father has left her mother and moved to England. The mother, persuaded that she can make him change his mind, uproots Kasienka’s whole life, fitting it into a suitcase and a laundry bag, and they arrive in Coventry. Forced to live in a bedsit, Kasienka and her mother must get …
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Cat Clarke(Quercus) When Alice is dragged to Scotland with the rest of her classmates for an activity-packed school trip, she is not expecting to have any fun. In fact, she is expecting it to be quite awful, especially when she and best friend Cass finds themselves stuck in a cabin with outcast Polly, quiet emo-girl Rae …
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Liz Pichon(Scholastic) Tom Gates is quite a regular boy, but also a master homework escapologist and excels at tormenting his older sister Delia. He also spends a lot of time thinking about his band Dog Zombies and eating caramel wafers. But Tom still manages to spend a lot of time writing and doodling in his homework book and it is …
The Ministry of Letters: Operation Alphabet
Al MacCuish (text), Luciano Lozano (illustrations) & Jim Bletsas (design)(Thames & Hudson) Young Charlie Foxtrot is in a bit of a pickle. You see, he has a tendency to daydream at school and so it comes as a bit of a shock when he realises he has to learn his alphabet. “The Alphabet-a-whattie” wonders Charlie? …
Between
Jessica Warman(Egmont) On the dawn of her eighteenth birthday, Elizabeth Valchar wakes on her father’s yacht after a night of partying and walks onto the deck to investigate a noise. She finds herself staring at a dead body in the water. Her own body. Liz is forced to witness her family and friends coming to …
Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School
David Mackintosh(HarperCollins Children’s Books) When Marshall Armstrong joins the school of our young narrator, it becomes clear fairly quickly that he is different. In fact, everything about him is slightly odd; Marshall is obviously rich, a little bit eccentric and prone to all sorts of medical issues. He is rather unique, but he just does not …
The Vampire Hunters
Pete Johnson(Yearling) On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus found out that he was a half-vampire. It might sound exciting, but Marcus certainly does not think so: blood cravings, near death-experiences when eating pizza (half-vampires are allergic to garlic) and powerful vampires wanting to drink your blood while you are a fledgling … it is not that …
The Rights of the Reader
Daniel Pennac with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams) (Walker books) Parents, teachers, librarians,please on no account use these pages as an instrument of torture. These words of caution from the author at the very beginning of the book set the tone of one of my most favourite books. Daniel Pennac is a bestselling French …
The day I met Cat Clarke …
Organising author visits in schools is one of the best things about being a school librarian. I know my children are very lucky that we take them to literary festivals and to the theatre; for most children, author school visits is often their only opportunity to meet a writer “in the flesh” and it is a very …
Madame Pamplemousse and the Enchanted Sweet Shop
Ruper Kingfisher (text) & Sue Hellard (illustrations)(Bloomsbury) Another instalment in the Madame Pamplemousse series, another whimsical adventure, another fabulous Parisian shop … This time we are introduced to a little shop in Isle Saint-Louis which sells all sorts of sweets and chocolates. The owner is Madame Bonbon (it figures). We meet this Madame as she …