Summer Reading 2019

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Carnegie Winner 2019!

The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo

Station Zero: Railhead Book 3, Philip Reeve

Xiomara, a fierce teenage girl of Dominican

The stunning conclusion to the acclaimed

heritage, is starting to notice boys, but her

Railhead trilogy. What happens after the

strict Catholic parents have decided that

adventure of a lifetime? For Zen, it's a safe,

there will be absolutely no contact with

comfortable life of luxury. But it's not what

them until marriage. Her twin brother is also

Zen wants. He misses the thrill of riding the

struggling with his own attraction to

rails, of dodging danger, and of breathing

another boy. A verse novel that sings with

the air of different planets. Most of all he

the rhythms of slam poetry, Xiomara’s

misses Nova - lost to him forever in a distant

powerful story expresses what it’s like to be

world. But then one day a mysterious

a teen girl suddenly in possession of a FIC ACE

FIC ALE

woman’s body, noticed and commented on

FIC REE

message arrives - and that's all Zen needs to head off, ready for anything. Except that no

by men.

one could be ready for what he finds . . .

Rebound, Kwame Alexander

Mud, Emily Thomas

It’s 1988 and Charlie Bell is 12 years old and

It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no

going through the hardest time in his life

idea how she'll cope when her dad

after his dad dies from a stroke. It seems

announces that the family has to sell up and

like nothing can make him feel any joy in life

move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex.

now and that nothing ever will. After he gets

With his girlfriend. And her three kids.

into a spot of trouble, his mum decides to

Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a

send him to spend the summer with his

leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts,

grandparents. Here, his cousin Roxie

awkward encounters with local boys, and

introduces him to basketball, his grandad

coping with her suddenly enormous and

introduces him to hard work and jazz, and things begin to change.

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FIC THO

troublesome family, Lydia fears she'll sink rather than swim . . .

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FIC PAN

The Astonishing Colour of After Emily X. R. Pan

The House With Chicken Legs

Leigh is sixteen when her mother dies by

Every night is party night at Marinka’s

suicide, leaving a scribbled note: 'I want you

house. There’s food, drink, music and lively

to remember'. Leigh doesn't understand,

conversation… But all the guests are dead.

but when a red bird appears with a

Marinka’s grandmother is a Yaga, someone

message, she finds herself travelling to

who guides the recently dead through The

Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents

Gate so they can make their way back to the

for the first time. Overwhelmed by grief,

stars. Marinka is expected to follow in her

Leigh retreats into her art and into her

grandmother’s footsteps but she is

memories, where colours collide and the

desperate for a normal life. Can she really

Sophie Andersen

rules of reality are broken. The only thing Leigh is certain about is that she must find

FIC AND

change her destiny or is her fate predetermined and unalterable?

out the truth. She must remember.

Bone Talk

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Candy Gourlay

Onjali Q. Rauf

Samkad is a boy from a remote Filipino tribe

There used to be an empty chair at the back

in the highlands of the Philippines, back in

of my class, but now a new boy called

around 1899. When the story starts, Samkad

Ahmet is sitting in it. He's nine years old

is most worried about receiving the Cut

(just like me), but he's very strange. He

(something similar to circumcision that

never talks and never smiles and doesn't like

happens to boys at about 10 years old) and

sweets! But then I learned the truth: Ahmet

his slightly complicated friendship with a girl

isn't strange at all. He's a refugee who's run

called Luki. He has never met anyone from

away from a War. With bombs and fires and FIC RAU

bullies. The more I find out about him, the more I want to help, and my friends and I have come up with a plan….

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the world outside of his tribe, but then the FIC GOU

American invaders provide a much greater threat to everything he knows and loves.

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A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge

The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane

When a creature dies, its spirit can go

All over the country, there are words

looking for somewhere to hide. Makepeace,

disappearing from children's lives. These are

a courageous girl with a mysterious past,

the words of the natural world - Dandelion,

defends herself nightly from the ghosts

Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich

which try to possess her. Then a dreadful

landscape of wild imagination and wild play

event causes her to drop her guard for a

is rapidly fading from our minds. With its

moment and now there’s a ghost inside her.

stunning illustration, poetry and riddles, The

The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, but it

Lost Words stands against the disappearance

may be her only defence in a time of dark FIC HAR

suspicion and fear.

FIC MAC

Things a Bright Girl Can Do, Sally Nicholls

of wild childhood.

Straw into Gold: Fairy Tales Re-Spun Hilary McKay

Imagine this: having to fight to go to

FIC NIC

university. Not being given a job just

What happened to Rapunzel after she was

because you’re a girl. Not being allowed to

freed from the tower? How did

vote for the things you believe in. This is the

Rumpelstiltskin end up striking that

world where Nell, May and Evelyn live. This

notorious deal? And what's the truth about

is England, 1914. Offering a historical

the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood? This book

snapshot of a society in turmoil, this is a

aims to answer all of those questions and

thought-provoking story of love, life and

more. Well researched and beautifully told in

hope, with themes of feminism and

a traditional style, this collection doesn't

equality, social class and divisions, and the massive impacts of the First World War.

FIC MCK

completely reinvent the stories we know and love – but it might make you see them a little bit differently.

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My Side of the Diamond, Sally Gardner

Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds When Shawn, the beloved big brother of

Jazmin has been shunned ever since her

15-year-old Will, is shot dead, Will is ready

best friend Becky disappeared. But she

to get revenge. After finding his brother’s

didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall

gun, he gets in the lift from his home on

building and never reached the ground. It

the seventh floor–and so begins a surreal

was as if she simply vanished. Did Jazmin

journey of discovery, guided by the ghosts

have something to do with her

of other dead people in Will’s life. The

disappearance? Or was it more to do with

entire action of the book takes place on

Icarus, so beguiling and strangely ever

that journey down to the ground floor...

youthful, with whom Becky became FIC GAR

Written in verse, Long Way Down is

suddenly besotted . . . Includes intriguing black and white illustrations throughout.

FIC REY

A Different Boy, Paul Jennings

The Land of Neverendings Kate Saunders

'If you've got a bad deal, ' his father used

What if there was a world powered by

to say, 'get out of it and move on.'

imagination? A world of silliness, where

When he finds himself in a cruel

humans and their toys live on long after

orphanage Anton does just that, and hides

they’ve left the Hard World… and what if

on an ocean liner. Fear and desperation

the door between their world and this

are his only companions. And this time

one was broken? Emily’s sister Holly has

there is no escape. Or is there? Two other

died, and nothing will ever be the same.

passengers have secrets of their own.

Emily also really misses Bluey, Emily’s toy

When nothing is what it seems, can they

bear. But one day, Emily starts having

help each other? Or will they sink into a FIC JEN

sea of troubles? You'll never know… until the last page.

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breathtakingly gripping and spectacular.

FIC SAU

dreams about Bluey and she realises that there is a place, powered by imagination, where the spirits of toys live!

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FIC ALM

The Colour of the Sun, David Almond

Moonrise, Sarah Crossan

A boy has been killed, and Davie thinks he

Teenager Joe hasn’t seen his big brother for

might know who is responsible. He turns

ten years, since Ed’s on death row in a

away from the gossip and excitement and

Texan prison for a murder for which he’s

sets off roaming towards the sunlit summit

always claimed innocence. Now the date

at the top of the little Tyneside town, in

for Ed’s execution is set, Joe is determined

search of the killer. But as the day passes, it

to spend his last few weeks close by, ever

becomes ever more dramatic and strange.

hopeful that they will overturn the

Davie sees things on the hillside that show

execution. Written in verse, this is the first-

him that amongst immorality, there can be

person story of Joe in those last weeks,

kindness, and in darkness, there is a chance

when the brothers are able to get to know

of hope.

FIC CRO

series of prison visits.

The Weight of a Thousand Feathers,

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki

Brian Conaghan

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Bobby has questions. How can I tell Bel I

The gods of the Vikings come to life as

want her as my girl friend, not my

never before in this illustrated anthology.

girlfriend? How much pain is Mum in

These dramatic, enthralling tales are based

today? Has she taken her pills? And

on the Scandinavian myth cycle and tell of

sometimes, secretly, why us? But it's

Odin with his one eye, Thor with his mighty

Mum's question for Bobby that could turn

hammer and Loki, the red-haired, shape-

everything on its head. It's the Big One. The Unthinkable One. If Bobby agrees, he won't FIC CON

each other properly for the first time in a

just be soothing her pain. He'll be helping to end it. Would he? Could he?

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shifting trickster. In this stunning book, the FIC CRO

strange world of ancient magic, giants, dwarfs and monsters is unforgettably imagined.

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