Deeply original and with kudos from Naoise Dolan and Katherine Heiny, this bildungsroman follows Vero, a 15-year-old girl, writer and compulsive liar as she plots various bids for freedom, all of which are thwarted by her savvy mother. The film rights have been snapped up by Fandango, so ...
The SDG Book Club launched in April 2019, the aim being to develop a reading list of titles for readers aged 6-12 years about the importance of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to encourage young people around the world to set up their own book clubs on this subject (more...
Thank you for your help in finding this book! Now my kids are becoming interested in history, and I would love for them to read this!S289 Garfield, Brian. Paladin (Based-on-fact Adventure) During World War II England's Prime Minister Winston Churchill recruits his 15-year-old neighbor ...
‘The Girls’ by Emma Cline has been one of the most eagerly anticipated debut novels of the year. Set in California in 1969, it is a semi-fictionalised account of a group of young women including fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd who fall under the spell of Russell Hadrick, a failed musici...
It’s 1958, and Annie is an eighteen year old girl who goes to work in a summer camp, delirious with experiencing “freedom” from her parents/community for the first time in her life. She wonders if she will fall madly in love. Can she be a new person, someone else? She loses her...
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It was a big deal for me to show up to those book clubs, haha! This year I read 26 books, which were predominantly emotional, adventurous, mysterious, reflective, and dark in terms of moods. My top genres were fantasy, historical, and a tie between romance and contemporary. Nearly two...
“Where Waters Meet” by ZHANG Ling //《归海》张翎 (著)- When 83-year-old Rain dies, her daughter Phoenix finds mementoes that can only be explained through visiting relatives in China. Her exploration of her mother’s life is also one of self-discovery. Novel. [ISBN 9787521223934] ...
Teaching a non-native 5 year old how to read Chinese is a new challenge for me. There is no external input from her school or family members, so it is all down to me. For reading specifically, I started with 四五快读 [Quick, Read!], which is a series of 8 textbooks which introdu...
“She had given up things for him before. After their first year together, she’d left her job as an RN because it was so exciting to travel with him. And then being on the road got old, or maybe just she did. But by the end of her second year touring with him, she began to...