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Daily Archives: July 3, 2014

12 Books for Summer

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Caroline Roche
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Produced by Shaun at Forge Valley School – wonderful use of Prezi and exciting way to promote books!

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Caroline's books

A Face Like Glass
really liked it
A Face Like Glass
by Frances Hardinge
I find it hard to rate Francis Hardinge's books. Although they are YA and about young people they seem better read by adults. The writing is wonderful but the plots are dense and convoluted. This one is no different. I really loved the b...
Breathe
liked it
Breathe
by Sarah Crossan
An okay dystopian novel. The premise was good - the death of trees bringing a world without oxygen so people have to love in domes controlled by the elite. That serves as a great environmental warning. But the plot is thin and the charac...
Dark Matter
it was amazing
Dark Matter
by Michelle Paver
This book held me spellbound from start to finish. It is a ghost story set in the Arctic, but very much in the way of Henry James (The Turn of the Screw). Five young men in 1932 set out to spend a year in a remote part of Iceland making ...
Black Light Express
it was amazing
Black Light Express
by Philip Reeve
This is the second book in the Railhead series, and one I had been waiting for. Zen and Nova have travelled into the the new gate they made into the unknown. What they find there is not nothing, as the Network Empire had led them to beli...
Orangeboy
it was amazing
Orangeboy
by Patrice Lawrence
OrangeBoy is a fantastic book, definitely one for your older YA readers though. Set in and around Brixton, it tells the story of a young black boy called Marlon whose brother had been involved in drugs, but who desperately wants not to f...

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    • Emily’s Day in the Life
    • Jenny’s Day in the Life – NEW!
    • Jo’s Day in the Life – NEW!
    • Kim’s Day in the Life – NEW!
    • Sarah’s Day in the Life – NEW!
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    • Book Bus Project in Zambia
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    • Collaborative projects
    • EPQ and International Baccaulaureate
    • Facilitate online collaborative learning
    • Helping students plan for their revision
    • Information Literacy – teaching pupils how to think
      • Year 10 work experience and Information Literacy Skills
    • Judging the Booktrust Teenage Fiction prize
    • Links to university libraries
    • Local Book Awards
      • Stan Lee Excelsior Award
    • Mass Lobby
    • Monk’s Walk School App Club
    • Monk’s Walk School New Technologies Intervention
    • Primary School libraries
    • Primary school transition work
      • Involving pre-school in a secondary library
    • Public libraries
    • Reading and Literacy
      • Author visits
        • Preparing for an author visit
      • Carnegie/Greenaway Shadowing
      • DEAR – Drop Everything and Read
      • Getting the whole school reading!
      • Kids’ Lit Quiz
      • Shadowing the Man Booker prize
    • Sixth form work
    • Staff training and INSET
    • Teen Titles magazine
    • Virtual libraries
    • World Book Day/Night stories

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