Sandringham Learning Resource Centre Young Adult suggested reads Dystopian Fiction: Cormac McCarthy: The Road Margaret Atwood: The Testaments

A father and his son walk alone A thrilling sequel to The Handmaid’s through burned America. Tale set in the terrifying Dystopian, Nothing moves in the ravaged Gilead. You don’t need to have read landscape save the ash on the The Handmaid’s tale to enjoy this wind. It is cold enough to crack brilliant, pacy novel. stones, and when the snow falls

it is grey. The sky is dark.

Patrick Ness: More Than This Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go A boy drowns, desperate and Hailsham seems like a pleasant English alone in his final moments. He boarding school, far from the dies. Then he wakes, naked and influences of the city. Its students are bruised and thirsty, but alive. well tended and supported, trained in How can this be? And what is art and literature, and become just the this strange deserted place? sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.

Angeline Boulley: Fire Keeper’s Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Daughter Set in a futuristic World State, As a biracial, unenrolled tribal inhabited by genetically modified member and the product of a citizens and an intelligence-based scandal, Daunis has never quite social hierarchy, the novel anticipates fit in, in her hometown or on huge scientific advancements in the Ojibwe reservation. She reproductive technology, sleep- wants to study medicine, but learning, psychological manipulation her family is struck by tragedy, and classical conditioning that are so she puts her future on hold combined to make a dystopian society to care for her fragile mother. challenged by only a single individual.

George Orwell: 1984 Lauren Oliver: Replica 1984 is the story of one man, Turn the book one way and read Lyra's Winston Smith. Hidden away in story; turn the book over and upside the Record Department of the down and read Gemma's story. Lyra's sprawling Ministry of Truth, story begins in the Haven Institute, a Winston skilfully rewrites the building tucked away on a private past to suit the needs of the island off the coast of Florida that Party. Yet he inwardly rebels from a distance looks serene and even against the totalitarian world he beautiful. But up close the locked lives in, which demands absolute doors, military guards, and biohazard obedience and controls him suits tell a different story. through the telescreens. Tracey Mathias: Silence is Also a Ernest Cline: Ready Player One series Lie Wade escapes reality by spending his Zara keeps secrets to stay safe, waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a now that the hard-right Party is in virtual utopia where you can be power. Because under the British anything, and live, play and fall in love Born policy, she is an illegal, at on any of ten thousand planets. He is risk of immediate deportation. obsessed by the lottery ticket concealed She can't tell anyone who she is, within this alternate reality. OASIS or what she knows: the truth founder James, has promised that about how Sophie died. Stay control of the OASIS and his fortune will silent, secret, safe. They're such go to the one who can solve the riddles simple rules. Until she meets Ash. scattered throughout his creation. Neal Shusterman: Dry Peadar O Guilin: The Call The drought - or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it - has been going Nessa and her friends attend Boyle on for a while now. Everyone's College to train for the most dangerous lives have become an endless list time of their lives - The Call. of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take Without warning, each one of them will long showers. Until the taps run wake in a terrifying land, alone and dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet hunted, with a one-in-ten chance of street spirals into a warzone of returning alive. desperation; neighbours and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. Horror /Gothic Josh Malerman: Bird Box Stephen King: Pet Sematary Something is out there, When the Creeds move into a something terrifying that must beautiful old house in rural Maine, it not be seen, or else a person is all seems too good to be true: driven to deadly violence. No physician father, beautiful wife, one knows what it is or where it charming little daughter, adorable came from. Five years later, a infant son-and now an idyllic home. As handful of scattered survivors a family, they've got it all...right down remains, including Malorie and to the friendly car. But the nearby her two children. She dreams of woods hide a blood-chilling truth. fleeing to a safe place.

Bram Stoker: Dracula George R.R. Martin: Fevre Dream Jonathan visits Transylvania to Abner Marsh has had his dearest wish help Count Dracula buy a house come true - he has built the Fevre and makes a series of discoveries Dream, the finest steamship ever to sail about his client. Incidents unfold: the Mississippi. Abner hopes to race the an unmanned ship is wrecked off boat someday, but his partner is making the coast; a young woman finds it hard for him to realise his ambition. strange puncture marks on her Joshua York put up the money for the neck; and the inmate of a lunatic Fevre Dream, but now rumours have asylum raves about the 'Master' started about the company he keeps, his and his imminent arrival. odd eating habits and strange hours.

Stephen King: The Outsider Daphne Du Maurier: Jamaica Inn Mary crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica A horrifying crime. Inn, which has a desolate power, and Water-tight evidence points to a behind it's crumbling walls Patience single suspect. cowers before her brooding, violent Except he was seventy miles husband. When Mary discovers the inn's away, with an iron-clad alibi. dark secrets, the truth is more terrifying Detective Anderson sets out to than anything she could possibly investigate the impossible: how imagine, and she is forced to collude in can the suspect have been both her uncle's murderous schemes. at the scene of the crime and in another town?

Susan Hill: The Woman in Black R.L.Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Arthur, a junior solicitor, attends Jekyll & Mr. Hyde the funeral of Mrs Drablow, the The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh strange association with the 'damnable House. It is at the end of a young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt causeway. He glimpses a wasted through fog-bound London for a killer; young woman, dressed in black. A and the final revelation of Hyde's true creeping sense of unease grows, identity is a chilling exploration of deepened by the locals’ humanity's basest capacity for evil. reluctance to talk of the woman and her purpose.

Charlie Higson: The Enemy series Ghost Stories: by various authors Charlie Higson's The Enemy is A collection of spooky spine chillers, the first in a jaw-dropping including "The Signal-man' by Charles zombie horror series. Everyone Dickens; ''Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to over the age of fourteen has You, My Lad'" by MR James; 'The Body succumbed to a deadly zombie Snatcher' by Robert Louis Stevenson; virus and now the kids must 'The Masque of the Red Death' by somehow keep themselves Edgar Allen Poe; 'The Canterville alive. Ghost' by Oscar Wilde; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.

Melinda Salisbury: Hold Back of Christopher Pike: The Midnight Club Tide At the hospice was a group of five Everyone knows what young men and women who called happened to Alva's mother, all themselves the midnight club. Every those years ago. But when dark night at twelve they met and told each forces begin to stir in other stories – tales of intrigue, Ormscaula, Alva must face a horror, of life and death. very different future - and question everything she thought she knew about her past…

Fantasy and Science Fiction J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship George R.R. Martin: Game of Thrones of the Ring Sauron, the Dark Lord, has Summers span decades. Winter can gathered to him all the Rings of last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Power - the means by which he Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of intends to rule Middle-earth. All the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it he lacks in his plans for a curse when King Robert bestows on dominion is the One Ring - the him the office of the Hand. His honour ring that rules them all - which weighs him down at court where a has fallen into the hands of the true man does what he will, not what hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Book#1 he must … and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. Book#1

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Malorie Blackman: Chasing the Stars Dream of Electric Sheep Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are World War Terminus had left the heading alone back to Earth following Earth devastated. Bounty hunter the virus that completely wiped out Rick Deckard stalks the ruins, in their family and the rest of their crew. search of the replicants who are Nathan's ship is heading the opposite his prey. He 'retires' them with way, but is attacked, leaving only a his laser weapon and dreams of few survivors. Their lives unexpectedly owning a live animal - the collide. Nathan and Olivia instantly fall ultimate status symbol in a world deeply in love. But not everyone is all but bereft of animal life. pleased.

Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide Songbirds and Snakes to the Galaxy. This is the prequel to The Arthur Dent’s house gets demolished. Hunger Games. It can be read The Earth follows shortly afterwards to before or after The Hunger make way for a new hyperspace express Games trilogy. It is a dystopian route, and his best friend has just novel about a planet run by a announced that he's an alien. They are tyrannical leader who keeps the hurtling through space with a book population under control using inscribed with the words: DON'T PANIC. sinister Games.

Andy Weir: The Martian Namina Forna: The Gilded Ones I'm stranded on Mars, no way Deka lives in anticipation of the blood to communicate with Earth, in a ceremony to see if she can become a habitat designed to last 31 days. member of her village. Different from If the oxygenator breaks, I'll everyone else because of her unnatural suffocate. If the reclaimer intuition, Deka prays for red blood so breaks, I'll die of thirst. If the she can finally feel like she belongs. But hub breaches, I'll explode. If on the day of the ceremony, her blood is none of those things happen, I'll gold, the colour of impurity-and Deka knows she will face a consequence eventually run out of food and worse than death. starve to death.

John Wyndham: The Day of the Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Triffids Letting Go When a cosmic event makes Prentisstown isn't like other towns. most of the Earth's population Everyone can hear everyone else's blind, Bill is lucky to retain his thoughts in a constant, overwhelming sight. People need help, some Noise. There is no privacy. There are prey on others. But there’s no secrets. Then Todd Hewitt another menace: the Triffids, unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of mobile plants with lethal complete silence. Which is impossible. stingers and carnivorous And now he's going to have to run... appetites are set to take over.

Neil Gaiman: American Gods Tom Pollock: The City’s Son After three years in prison, Hidden under the surface of everyday Shadow Moon is free to go home. London is a city where wild train spirits But hours before his release, his stampede over the tracks and glass- beloved wife is killed in a freak skinned dancers with glowing veins light accident. Numbly, he boards a the streets. When a devastating betrayal plane where he meets an drives her from her home, Beth stumbles into the secret city, where she finds enigmatic stranger who seems to Filius Viae, London's ragged crown know Shadow and claims to be an prince, just when he needs someone the ancient god - and king of most. For an ancient enemy has returned America. to the darkness under St Paul's Cathedral, bent on reigniting a centuries-old war.

War and Historical Fiction Pat Barker: Regeneration Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Craiglockhart War Hospital, Yellow Sun Scotland, 1917, and army In 1960s Nigeria, Ugwu, a boy from a psychiatrist William treats poor village, goes to work for shell-shocked soldiers Odenigbo, a university professor and including the poets Sassoon Olanna, a woman who has abandoned and Owen, and mute Billy a life of privilege to live with him. Then Prior, who communicates by Richard arrives, a writer, who falls in pencil and paper. Rivers makes love with Olanna’s sister Kainene. But the men in his charge healthy when the horror of war engulfs the enough to fight. But then they nation their lives pull apart. must go back to the war.

Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road Stephen arrives in France in 1910 to the Deep North staying with the Azaire family and There were only two sorts of men: falls for unhappily married those who were on the Line, and Isabelle. With war coming, the those not. In the Japanese POW relationship falters, and he goes camp on the Burma Death Railway, to fight on the Front. His love for surgeon Dorrigo is struggling to save Isabelle growing, he experiences his men from starvation, cholera and the horrors of war. He cannot beatings, he receives a letter that emerge unchanged. will change his life forever.

Sarah Waters: The Little Joseph Heller: Catch 22 Stranger At the end of World War II, Yossarian Post-war, a doctor is called to a is frantic because lots of people are patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. trying to kill him, including his own The Georgian house is now in army which keeps increasing the decline, its gardens choked with missions the men must fly to complete weeds, its owners - mother, son their service. If he makes attempts to and daughter - struggling to keep excuse himself from the missions then pace. But are the Ayreses he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he haunted by a dying way of life or is crazy, so doesn't have to; but if he something more sinister? doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch... Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Christy Lefteri: The Beekeeper of It is 1939. In Nazi Germany. Aleppo Death has never been busier - Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an and will get busier still. By her artist. They live simply, in the Syrian brother's grave, Liesel's life is city of Aleppo. Then all they care for is changed when she finds a book, destroyed by war. Forced to escape, in the snow, The Gravedigger's they travel on, confronting the pain of Handbook. This is her first theft. their own loss and danger. Above all - Soon she is stealing from Nazi and perhaps this is the hardest thing book-burnings, wherever she they face - they must journey to find can find books. each other again. Liz Kessler: When the World Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl was Ours In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne In 1936, three friends spend a Frank and her family, fleeing the perfect day together, unaware occupation, went into hiding in an that around them Europe is Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next descending into a growing two years Anne vividly describes in her darkness, and that events will diary the frustrations of living in such mean that they will be cruelly close quarters, and her thoughts, ripped apart from each other. feelings and longings as she grows up. With their lives taking them across Europe, will they find their way back to each other? Ruta Sepetys: Ashes in the Snow Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Auschwitz Lithuanian girl living an ordinary I tattooed a number on her arm. She life -- until Soviet officers invade tattooed her name on my heart. her home and tear her family In 1942, Lale arrived in Auschwitz- apart. Separated from her father Birkenau and was given the job of and forced onto a crowded train, tattooing the prisoners marked for Lina, her mother, and her young survival - scratching numbers into his brother make their way to a fellow victims' arms to create what Siberian work camp, where they would become one of the most potent are forced to fight for their lives. symbols of the Holocaust. Waiting in line to be tattooed, was a young girl. For Lale it was love at first sight. Thriller/Crime /Mystery Sue Wallman: I Know You Did it P.D. James: An Unsuitable Job for a Ruby finds a note in her locker Woman saying "I KNOW YOU DID IT". Cordelia inherits the Pryde Detective She's terrified that someone Agency. She is hired to investigate the has found out she caused the death of Sir Ronald Callender’s son death of Hannah when they Mark, a young Cambridge student were toddlers - a secret that has found hanged in mysterious haunted her. When first one, circumstances. She must delve into then two students are found the secrets of the family and realizes it dead, it looks like Ruby is being is more sinister than suicide. framed by another killer.

Lee Child: Killing Floor Holly Jackson: A Good Girl’s Guide to Jack Reacher jumps off a bus Murder and walks into Margrave, Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie was Georgia. He is the only stranger murdered by Sal Singh. Everyone in town when they have their knows he did it. But having grown up first homicide in thirty years. in the same small town, Pippa Fitz- The police chief says he is an Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses eyewitness and arrests him. the murder for her final project, she Secrets leak out, and the body starts to uncover secrets. And if the count mounts. real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth …?

Patrice Lawrence: Orangeboy Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars Marlon made his mum a They have been best friends since the promise – never to go down the third grade, and go everywhere wrong path. But when a date together, no-one can come between ends in tragedy, he is hunted. them. Alison, the ringleader of the They're after the mysterious Mr group and the other girls confide all Orange, and they’ll use Marlon their secrets to her. One night, during to get to him. Can he become a sleepover, Alison goes missing. Her what he never wanted to be, to body is never found. The girls mourn protect those he loves? her death but move apart after time, assuming their secrets have disappeared with Alison too. Andy McNab: Street Soldier Chelsea Pitcher: This Lie will Kill You London gang member Sean One year ago, someone died at a Harker is down on his luck. party. Five teens played a part, and no After a car heist gone wrong, he one has told the truth. Tonight, they finds himself in a young arrive at a mansion in the hills, to offender's institution . . . aged compete in a contest with a $50,000 only 16. prize. They realize they’ve been lured Locked up and afraid, a there by a revenge seeker who wants horrifying incident convinces the truth about what happened that Sean to turn his life around. deadly night, one year ago.

M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and John le Carre: Tinker Tailor Soldier the Quiche of Death Spy Agatha has decided to take A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, early retirement and make a has infiltrated the highest ranks of the new life in a Cotswold village. British Intelligence Service, almost Entering the quiche-making destroying it in the process. And so competition, she secretly visits former spymaster George Smiley has a London deli. But the judge been brought out of retirement to succumbs after tasting her hunt down the traitor at the very quiche, and she is revealed as a heart of the Circus - even though it cheat and potential poisoner. may be one of those closest to him.

M.A. Bennett: S.T.A.G.S. series Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Nine students. One deadly Club weekend. Greer is trying to In a retirement village, four friends settle into the sixth form at the meet up once a week to investigate exclusive St. Aidan boarding murders. When a brutal killing takes school. Then she receives an place on their doorstep, they find invitation “huntin' shootin' themselves in the middle of their first fishin'. The invitation is to spend live case. The Thursday Murder Club the weekend at the manor of might be almost eighty, but they still Henry de Warlencourt; the have a few tricks left. Can they catch most popular boy at S.T.A.G.S. the killer before it's too late?

Harlan Coben: Shelter Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient When tragic events tear him Express away from his parents, 15-year- Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops old Mickey Bolitar is sent to live the Orient Express in its tracks. The train with his estranged uncle, is surprisingly full for the time of the Myron. For a while, it seems his year, but by the morning it has one train wreck of a life is finally passenger less. An American tycoon lies improving - until his girlfriend, dead in his compartment, stabbed a Ashley, goes missing without a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Detective Hercule Poirot must trace. identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

General Fiction Colson Whitehead: The Sally Rooney: Normal People Underground Railroad Marianne is the young, affluent, Cora is a slave on a cotton wallflower; Connell, the boy everyone plantation in Georgia. They lead a likes, shadowed by his family’s hellish existence, but Cora has it reputation and poverty. Unlikely worse. She is an outcast and she friends, and later lovers, their is approaching womanhood, beginnings in Ireland are swiftly when even greater pain awaits. eclipsed by the world of student Caesar, a slave from Virginia, tells Dublin. Their love becomes a her about the Underground battleground of power, class, and the Railroad, they take the perilous falsehoods they believe. decision to escape to the North.

Kelly Reid – Such a Fun Age Nikesh Shukla: The Boxer Emira is apprehended at a Told over the course of the ten supermarket for 'kidnapping' rounds of his first fight, this is the the white child she's story of amateur boxer Sunny. He babysitting, setting off an feels isolated and disconnected in explosive chain of events. Her the city so Sunny joins a boxing club employer Alix, a feminist to learn to protect himself after a blogger, tries to make it right. racist attack. He finds a mentor in When Emira meets a woman trainer Shobu, who helps him find his place in the world. But racial tensions from Alix's past, they set a are rising in the city. course that will upend everything they think they know. Delia Owens: Where the Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach Crawdad’s Sing. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, Rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have married that morning, arrive at a hotel haunted Barkley Cove, on the in Dorset. They struggle to suppress North Carolina coast. In 1969, their private fears of the wedding when Chase is found dead, the night to come and, unbeknownst to locals suspect Kya, the Marsh them both, the events of the evening Girl. But Kya has survived alone in will haunt them for the rest of their the marsh. When two young men lives. from town notice her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life.

Kelly Yang: Parachutes Jenny Downham: Furious Thing They're called parachutes: Lexi's angry. If only she could stop teenagers dropped off in private losing her temper, her stepfather homes to study in the U.S.A. would accept her, her mum would while their wealthy parents love her again, and her stepbrother remain in Asia. Claire finds herself too. She wants these things so badly; living in a stranger's house, with she tries to push her fury down. But it no one to tell her what to do for isn't easy. Her rage is there for a the first time in her life. She soon reason. And if she stays quiet - she embraces her newfound might just lose herself... freedom, especially when the most Jay, asks her out. Adam Silvera: They Both Die at Christina R Hammonds: The Black Kids the End Ashley and her friends Death-Cast calls Mateo and spend more time at the beach than in Rufus with bad news: they're the classroom. They love the sunny going to die today. Total days of summer. But it all changes one strangers, they're both want to afternoon in April, when four police make a new friend on their End officers are acquitted after beating a Day. There's an app for that - black man - Rodney King half to death. called the Last Friend, and Ashley's not just one of the girls. She's Rufus and Mateo are about to one of the black kids. meet up for one last adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Bovary Street An erotically charged, and The story of girl growing up in the psychologically acute portrayal Hispanic quarter of Chicago. For of a married woman's affair. Its Esperanza, Mango Street is a heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled landscape of concrete and run-down by provincial life as the wife of a tenements where she discovers the doctor. She seeks escape in realities of life - the fetters of class and romance books, in spending gender, racial enmity, and the and, then, in adultery. But even mysteries of sexuality, capturing her her affairs bring her thoughts and emotions in poems and disappointment. stories.

Charles Dickens: Great Danielle Jawando: And the Stars Were Expectations Burning Brightly Humble, orphaned Pip is When Nathan discovers that his older apprenticed to work in the forge brother Al, has taken his own life, his but dreams of being a gentleman. world is torn apart. Al was special, One day, he finds himself with with many dreams. Sure that Al was in "great expectations." In this tale trouble, Nathan decides to retrace Al's of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the characters include footsteps, meeting Megan. But will Magwitch, the fearsome convict; either of them be able to handle the Estella, beautiful but haughty; and truth about Al's death? the jilted bride.

Yann Martel: Life of Pi Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca After the tragic sinking of a Working as a lady's companion, the cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat orphaned heroine, Rebecca learns her remains in the Pacific. The only place, until, she meets Maxim, whose survivors are a sixteen-year-old proposal of marriage takes her by boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra surprise. Whisked to his brooding (with a broken leg), a female estate, Manderley, on the Cornish orang-utan - and a 450-pound Coast, the new Mrs de Winter finds Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is Max a changed man. And the memory set for one of the strangest and of his dead wife Rebecca is forever best-loved stories. kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers . . . Holly Bourne: We are all Nicola Yoon: Instructions for Dancing Lemmings and Snowflakes Evie is disillusioned about love since her A novel about mental health and dad left her mum for another woman. friendship. Camp Reset is a She’s given a copy of a summer camp with a difference. book: Instructions for Dancing, and A place offering a shot at follows a note to a dance studio, and "normality" for Olive, a girl on the finds she has a strange gift. When a edge, and her new friends, all couple kiss, she sees their whole dealing with their own battles. relationship ahead. She thinks she But Olive starts to wonder - knows everything about love until she maybe it's this messed up world meets X. that needs fixing, and not them.

Elizabeth Acevedo: Clap When George Lester: Boy Queen You Land Life’s a drag until you try . . . Camino lives for the summers Robin Cooper’s life is falling apart. when her father visits the While his friends prepare to go to Dominican Republic. But when his plane should land, she arrives University, he is looking at a pile of at the airport to bad news. In New rejection letters from drama schools York, Yahaira is told that her across the country and facing a future father, has died in a plane crash. without the people he loves the most. Separated by distance - and Papi's Everything seems like it's ending, and secrets - the girls must face a Robin is scrabbling to find his place. reality in which their father is dead and their lives changed forever. Dean Atta: Black Flamingo Stephen Chobsky: The Perks of Being a Michael waits in the stage Wallflower wings, wearing a pink wig, pink Charlie is trying to navigate high fluffy coat and black heels. school, a world of first dates and One more step will see him mixed tapes, family dramas and new illuminated by spotlight. friends. When all one needs to feel He has been on a journey of infinite is that perfect song. He has a bravery to get here, and he is unique perspective of the world almost ready to show himself to around him, but it’s time to see what the world in bold colours ... it looks like from the dance floor and stop being a wallflower.

Sufiya Ahmed: Secrets of the Sue Cheung: Chinglish Henna Girl Jo is a teenager growing up in 1980s Zeba is like any other girl: Coventry with her little sister, older having fun, waiting for exam brother, some very unlucky pets and results and dreaming of the day bonkers parents. But Jo lives above she'll meet her someone. But her parents' Chinese takeaway. And her parents have other plans. In things can be tough - whether it's Pakistan for summer, Zeba's unruly customers or the snotty world is shattered and her popular girls who bully Jo for being future is threatened by an different. All Jo dreams of is breaking unthinkable,forced duty to free and forging a career as an artist. protect her father's honour.

Bernadine Evaristo: Girl, F. Scott. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Woman, Other. Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously Girl, Woman, Other follows the wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish lives and struggles of twelve parties at his West End mansion to very different characters. impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of Mostly women, black and his obsession, now married to bullish British, they tell the stories of Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island their families, friends and summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, lovers, across the country and a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks through the years. on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens.

Emily M. Danforth: The Angie Thomas: The Hate You Give Miseducation of Cameron Post Starr lives in two worlds: the poor The night Cameron Post's parents neighbourhood where she was born and died, her first emotion was relief. raised and her posh high school in the Relief they would never know suburbs. The uneasy balance between that hours earlier, she'd been them is shattered when Starr is the only kissing a girl. Now living with her witness to the fatal shooting of her conservative Aunt in small-town unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police Montana, hiding her sexuality and officer. Now what Starr says could blending in becomes second destroy her community. It could also get nature to Cameron until she her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives begins an intense friendship with Matter movement, this is a powerful and the beautiful Coley Taylor. gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.

Biographies

Pang-Mei Natasha Chang: Michelle Obama: Becoming Bound Feet Western Dress In her memoir, a work of deep reflection Pang-Mei, a first-generation and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Chinese American, paints this Obama invites readers into her world, unforgettable saga of a woman, chronicling the experiences that have born in Shanghai at the turn of shaped her-from her childhood on the the century to a well-to-do South Side of Chicago to her years as an family, who continually defied executive balancing the demands of the expectations of her class and motherhood and work, to her time culture. spent at the world’s most famous address.

Peter Crouch: How to be a Lee Lawrence: The Louder I Will Sing Footballer On 28th September 1985, Lee You become a footballer because Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was you love football. When you are a wrongly shot by police during a raid on footballer, you're suddenly in the her Brixton home. The bullet shattered strangest, most baffling world. A her spine and she never walked again. world where one team-mate 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the comes to training in a bright red News falsely pronounced his mother suit with matching top-hat, cane dead. In Brixton, it was the spark needed and glasses, without any actual to trigger two days of rioting that saw glass in them, and another has so buildings brought down by petrol many sports cars they forget they bombs, cars torched and shops looted. have left a Porsche at the train station. Barack Obama: A Promised Land David Attenborough: A Life on Our Barack Obama tells the story of Planet his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his See the world. Then make it better. 'I am identity to leader of the free 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's world, describing in strikingly only now that I appreciate how personal detail both his political extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I education and the landmark was out there in the wild, experiencing moments of the first term of his the untouched natural world - but it was historic presidency-a time of an illusion. The tragedy of our time has dramatic transformation and been happening all around us, barely turmoil. noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.

Malala Yousafzai: I am Malala Maya Angelou: I know Why the Caged When the Taliban took control of Bird Sings the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. In Loving the world, she also knows its 2012, she almost paid the cruelty. As a Black woman she has ultimate price when she was shot known discrimination and extreme in the head at point-blank range. poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement Malala Yousafzai's journey has and celebration. In I Know Why the taken her from a remote valley in Caged Bird Sings, Maya northern Pakistan to the halls of Angelou beautifully evokes her the United Nations. She has childhood with her grandmother in the become a global symbol of American south of the 1930s. She learns peaceful protest and is the the power of the white folks at the other youngest ever winner of the end of town and suffers a terrible Nobel Peace Prize. trauma. This is just a selection of our stock. Speak to the L.R.C. staff or check on Accessit Learning Resource Centre catalogue. June 2021