Book Club for 1st Years
There is a great variety of books in the Summer Reading Book List below, recommended by the members of the First Year Book Club at their meeting on Wednesday 13th May. Please read as many as you can during the holidays. You don’t have to be a member of the Book Club to read them.
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Safe Harbour by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are sent to their grandfather in Ireland.
I am David by Anne Holm
David escapes from a concentration camp and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone – who can he trust? What will await him back home? And all the while he knows that they may catch up with him.
The Maze Runner Series by James Dashner
The first three books in the pulse-pounding Maze Runner series! When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he's not alone. He's surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade - a walled encampment at centre of a bizarre and terrible stone maze. But the maze is just the beginning ...
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
I Am Number Fouris ayoung adultscience fictionnovel byPittacus Lore(the pseudonym ofJames Freyand Jobie Hughes) and the first book in theLorien Legaciesseries. The book was published byHarperCollinson August 3, 2010, and spent seven successive weeks at No1 on the children's chapter ofThe New York Timesbestseller list.
Cherub Series by Robert Muchamore
CHERUB: There are twelve books in the Cherub Series. Book 1 meet James and the gang for the first time. The Recruit tells James Adams' story from the day his mother dies. Read about his transformation from a couch potato into a skilled CHERUB agent.Meet Lauren, Kyle, Kerry and the rest of the cherubs and learn how James foiled the biggest terrorist massacre in British history.
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
Author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgotells this beautiful story of a boy, his lost dog, and the lengths he would go to be reunited. This timely story of battle-scarred Afganistan delivers a masterful portrait of war, love, and friendship. With the horrors of war bearing down on them, Aman and his mother are barely surviving in an Afghan cave, and staying there any longer will end horribly. The only comfort Aman has is Shadow, the loyal spaniel that shows up from places unknown, it seems, just when Aman needs him most………
Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission.
Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by – a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place . . .………….
The Belgariad Series by David Eddings
The Belgariadis a five-bookfantasyepic, following the picaresque journey of protagonist 'Belgarion' and his companions, first to recover a sacred stone, and later to use it against antagonist 'Kal Torak'.
Once/Then/Now/After by Morris Gleitzman
Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.My name is Felix. This is my story……….
Onceis the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust. The next books in the seriesare Then,NowandAfter.