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Book of the week
The Dodo Made Me Do It (8-10 Junior/Middle)
Jo Simmons
What starts out as a seemingly familiar story – comic culture-clash-adventure as a city boy is forced to spend his Summer holidays with his granny in a tiny Scottish village – turns into something much more surprising and original, and not just because in his first week there the boy discovers the world’s last living Dodo.
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Ella on the Outside (8-10 Junior/Middle)
Cath Howe
(Nosy Crow)
Girls are the likely readers of Ella on the Outside and the novel offers them a reflective read exploring territory which may well have features they recognise.
Behind Closed Doors (14+ Secondary/Adult)
Miriam Halahmy
(FIREFLY PRESS)
This powerful and gripping novel opens a window into the lives and the impossible situations of two teenage girls forced to deal with issues not of their making and that neither should have to face on their own.
The Wild Folk (10-14 Middle/Secondary)
Sylvia Linsteadt
(Usborne Publishing Ltd)
Usborne welcomes readers to Part One of a ‘duology’ with the claim that The Wild Folk has ‘a dash of Ursula Le Guin’ and ‘a generous helping from C.S. Lewis’. Tolkien might also have been cited.
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