Year 7 Book Club Recommend

The Year 7 Book Club recommended the following books this week

Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Lost in the snow by Holly Webb and Sophy Williams

Mates, dates series by Cathy Hopkins

Charlie and the chocolate factory by Roald Dahl

Vampirates by Justin Somper

Raven’s gate by Anthony Horowitz

Freezetag by Caroline B. Cooney

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

The animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann

The Year 7 Book Club Recommend…

I met with the Year 7 Book Club today and asked them what books they would recommend to their friends. Here is their list.

The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (Humour/Sci-Fi)

The looking glass wars by Frank Beddor (Fantasy)

Through the looking glass by Lewis Carroll (Fantasy)

Ginger Snaps by Cathy Cassidy (Everyday life)

Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy (Everyday life)

Charlie and the chocolate factory by Roald Dahl (Humour/adventure)

Crummy mummy and me by Anne Fine (Family/humour)

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (Fantasy)

The declaration by Gemma Malley (Sci-Fi)

Girl missing by Sophie McKenzie (Thriller)

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Fantasy)

The northern lights by Philip Pullman (Fantasy)

Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone by J.K. Rowling (Fantasy)

Heidi by Johanna Spyri (Family)

My Granny’s great escape by Jeremy Strong (Humour)

Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson (Everyday life)

My sister Jodie by Jacqueline Wilson (Everyday life)

Sleepover secrets by Jacqueline Wilson (Everyday life)

The Year 8 Book Club recommend…

On Friday I met with the Year 8 Book Club and asked them which books they would recommend to someone else. Here is their list.

Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman (love, terrorism, racism)

Dead famous by Ben Elton*

The dare game by Jacqueline Wilson (family story)

Raven’s gate by Anthony Horowitz (fantasy/horror)

Exit Oz by Catherine Forde

Dusk by Kenneth Oppel (fantasy)

Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer (the final book in the Twilight series)

People of the sparks by Jeanne DuPrau (the sequel to “City of Ember”)

Molly Moon’s incredible book of hypnotism by Georgia Byng (fantasy/adventure)

Cookie by Jacqueline Wilson (family story)

Alone on a wide wide sea by Michael Morpurgo (historical adventure)

Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy (murder)

Land of the silver apples by Nancy Farmer (fantasy)

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (life after death)

*Please note this book was written for adults.

From this list I would recommend, “Alone on a wide wide sea” –  it’s brilliant and also “Elsewhere” because it’s unusual and makes you think. “Looking for JJ” is very dark but an excellent read too.  Oh and I nearly forgot “Noughts and crosses”, that is an amazing book!

The Year 9 Book Club recommend…

Last night I asked my Year 9 book club what they have been reading lately that they would recommend to other people. This is their list of suggestions. I asked them to give each book marks out of 10 and the results are shown in brackets.

Philip Ardagh’s book of absolutely useless lists (8) Humour, non-fiction

The da Vinci Cod  – a fishy parody by Don Brine (8)

Bear Grylls guide to survival (9.9)

The Magician by Raymond Feist (8) Fantasy

The magician’s guild by Trudi Canavan (7) Fantasy

The puppet master by Joanne Owen (9) Fantasy

Henry Tumour by Anthony McGowan (7.5)

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (8)

Bleach vols. 13-15 (9) Manga

My favourite “dark future” books

These books fall under the category of Science Fiction and all imagine what the world might be like in the future. Despite the fact that this view is usually quite depressing I like these books because they make you think. There are a lot of books like this, these ones are just my personal favourites. With the exception of the first one on the list which is quite adult, the rest of these books can be enjoyed by anyone from age 11-100.

The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood

Exodus by Julia Bertagna

The city of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

The declaration by Gemma Malley

Life as we knew it by Susan Pfeffer

The dead and the gone by Suan Pfeffer

Mortal engines by Philip Reeve

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

If you enjoyed “Twilight”, you might like…

People are always coming up to me in the library and asking  what they can read that’s “a bit like Twilight”. Here is a list of books that I think might fit the bill. The ones in bold are the ones I have read. The others, I’ve not got round to yet. I would say that all of these books could be enjoyed by anyone in Year 9 and above.

A great and terrible beauty by Libba Bray

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine.

Marked by P.C. Cast

City of bones by Cassandra Clare

Vampire Beach by Alex Duvall

The moth diaries by Rachel Klein.

The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Sunshine by Robin McKinley (quite adult this one, I would say Year 10+)

Blood sinister by Celia Rees

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice

My swordhand is singing by Marcus Sedgwick

Parasite positive by Scott Westerfeld

The secret hour by Scott Westerfeld.