Everyone needs a good laugh now and again, so I bought some new joke books. I hope I’m still finding them funny once I’ve heard them a few times… The joke books are on the big spinner in the Quick Reads section – enjoy!
Four teenage friends reunite at their old school, five years after they left a time capsule on the roof there. But when they made the time capsule there were five of them. Unboxed is a wonderfully readable story about the kind of friendship that can overcome all the obstacles and last forever.
Alix, Ben, Zara and Dean meet at their old school to keep a longstanding promise to open a memory box they left there when they were thirteen. But there is a gaping hole – their friend Millie has died. When they open the box, secrets tumble out and old feelings rise to the surface.
Unboxed also has the most gorgeous cover – all midnight blue with gold stars. It’s a lovely book to hold as well as to read.
I suppose if you’d asked me before, I’d have said a time machine might look something like a submarine? Or perhaps a space rocket.
Instead. I’m looking at a laptop and a tin tub from a garden centre.
This is my dad’s time machine.
And it’s about to change the world.
Well, mine, at any rate”
Al Chaudhury has a chance to save his dad’s life – but to do it he must travel to 1984…
Blurb and cover art taken from publisher’s website, HarperCollins Publishing.
The Last Soldier by Keith Gray, a book recently read by the school’s book club, was voted the least favourite book. I liked it but it wasn’t the best. If it wasn’t as vague as it was, then I would’ve enjoyed it more. But you need to read it yourself to get your own opinion on the book.
The story follows two brothers, Wade and Joe, and their adventures with the travelling fair. Wade, the youngest brother, is drawn to the newest exhibit in the attractions: The Last Soldier. With it’s dead expression, the Last Soldier has a gruesome twist, impacting on the brothers’ lives.
Look! We’ve got a whole load of new graphic novels in the Library this week, and we’ve even sorted out a display unit to keep them all looking fabulous.
Today’s Book of the Week is an absolutely fantastic retelling of some of the bloodiest and most horrific bits of Norse mythology, as told by the sarcastic teenager at the heart of it all. This is the story of Loki’s daughter, Hel, Queen of the Dead.
The blurb says…
Before you reject me, before you hate me, remember: I never asked to be Hel’s queen.
Meet Hel, teenager and Queen of the Dead. Daughter of a giantess and a god. Sister to Fenhir the wolf and Jormungand the snake. This is her testament.
Hel never wanted to be queen, but being a normal teenager wasn’t an option either. Now she’s stuck ruling the underworld. For eternity. She doesn’t want your pity. But she does demand you listen. It’s only fair you hear her side of the story…
It didn’t have to be like this.
Francesca Simon is the author of the Horrid Henry series but this book is nothing like them!
The Monstrous Child was on the Costa Book Awards shortlist and has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2017.
I really enjoyed reading this book. The plot was something I found captivated my attention and I’m someone who doesn’t usually enjoy plots about time travel. However Ransom Riggs managed to do it in a way that I found interesting. The pictures littered throughout the book really helped me envision the story. The main character was someone who I was actually able to feel for, in fact, one of the best things was that I could feel for just about every character. There were still a few things that I felt weren’t fully explained, or some time loop rules that weren’t consistent throughout the whole book. Having said that I would still recommend this book to so many others.
The Library is closed this morning because the immunisation clinic is taking place there. It will hopefully be reopening after lunchtime.