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Summer Reading Recommendations
13 July 2018
The summer is finally here! If you’re worrying about how to fill those weeks, fear not - this is a list of some of the latest books available for you to dip into over the summer holidays! There’s plenty to keep you occupied until school starts again!
Where the World Ends - by Geraldine McCaughrean
In the summer of 1727, a group of men and boys are put ashore on a remote sea stack to harvest birds for food. No one returns to collect them. Why? Surely nothing but the end
of the world can explain why they have been abandoned to endure storms, starvation and terror. How can they survive, housed in stone and imprisoned on every side by the ocean?
One of us is lying - by Karen McManus
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball
diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the
notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again.
Boy Underwater - by Adam Baron
Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimming. Not ever. Not once. He’s never been to the beach (allergies to sand apparently), he’s never been to the rivers (full of
crocodiles) and certainly never to the swimming pool. But how hard can it be? He's Googled front crawl and he's found his dad's old pair of trunks. He's totally ready. What
he's not ready for is the accident at the pool - or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown.
How to stop time - by Matt Haig
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age
Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London
comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him.
The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love.
In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law - by Sarah Langford
Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the vulnerable, the heartbroken and the hopeful. She must become their voice:
weave their story around the black and white of the law and tell it to the courtroom. These stories may not make headlines but they will change the lives of ordinary people in
extraordinary ways. They are stories which, but for a twist of luck, might have been yours.
How do you like me now? - by Holly Bourne
There's no doubt that Tori is winning the game of life. She's inspired millions of women to stand up to the convention with her bestselling memoir, and she has the perfect
relationship to boot. But Tori Bailey has been living a lie. Everyone around her is getting married and having babies, but her long-term boyfriend won't even talk about
getting engaged. And when her best friend Dee - her plus one, the only person who understands the madness - falls in love, suddenly Tori's in terrifying danger of being left
behind. When the world tells you to be one thing and turning thirty brings with it a loud ticking clock, it takes courage to walk your own path.
From the Corner of the Oval Office - by Beck Dorey-Stein
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love
and finding her place in the world. In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when a posting on Craigslist landed her, improbably, in the Oval Office as
one of Barack Obama's stenographers.
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