Tilly and the Time Machine: time travelling, adventure filled fun! "Tilly is seven and a half - and about to make history. When Tilly's dad builds a time machine in the shed there's only one place she really wants to go: back to her sixth birthday party, when she ate too many cupcakes and her mummy … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Adrian Edmondson
Hello! Long time no speak! Sorry about my hiatus last week! I hope you didn't miss me too much! I never got round to doing a June round up... so here we are! In June I managed to finish my 52 books 52 weeks challenge! How mad! I am now surpassing my challenge... reckon I … Continue reading June books
Hello! This week's #SixForSunday is a bit later than normal... I do apologise! This week's theme is: Badass characters in YA books (I am totally not prepared for how hard this is going to be...) Twylla - The Sin Eater's Daughter trilogy Jin - Rebel of the Sands/Traitor to the Throne Moonbeam - After The … Continue reading S4S – YA characters
Radio Silence: honest, emotive and necessary "What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.But when Frances meets Aled, … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Alice Oseman
Welcome to another wonderful guest post from my wonderful friend Kelly - who is here to talk about YA books that everyone should read. Enjoy! Go follow Kelly, she's wonderful! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 YA Books Everyone Should Read Hi everyone! I’m Kelly from Kelly’s Rambles and I’m here to take over my dear friend Steph’s blog with … Continue reading 5 YA Everyone Should Read
The Salvation Project: dystopian destinies reached! "A mutation in human DNA means no one lives beyond nineteen. Scientists working to reverse the disease died before their Salvation Project was complete, and they left the results of their research – the Soterion – in a sealed vault. 122 years have passed. The civilisation of the Long … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Stewart Ross
Hello! It's #SixForSunday time again! This week, the 6 books topic is: Six books I've used in the classroom Books I've used in the classroom come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and for a multitude of reasons! Girl of Ink and Stars - Kiran Milwood Hargrave The Christmasaurus - Tom Fletcher Perijee and … Continue reading S4S – Books in the classroom
The Call: dark, gritty, brutal. Dystopian done proper. "Imagine a world where you might disappear any minute, only to find yourself alone in a grey sickly land, with more horrors in it than you would ever wish to know about. And then you hear a horn and you know that whoever lives in this hell … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Peadar Ó Guilín
Troublemakers: politically minded, sibling focused deliciousness (I took this at 7am, whilst on a residential with my class. Even when we're away, I'll read!) "Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick in the … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Catherine Barter
The Bookshop Girl: Magical, mysterious and delightful "This story is about a little girl named Property Jones, so-called because she was left in the lost property cupboard of a bookshop when she was five years old. Property loves living in the bookshop, but she has a whopper of a secret... she can't actually read! So … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Sylvia Bishop
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