Blame by Simon Mayo – Book of the Week

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Book of the Week this week is for those of you who love a terrifying dystopian story.

Heritage crime [noun]: A previously undetected crime committed by your parents or grandparents for which you are held responsible.

Ant and her brother, Mattie, are locked up in Spike, a new family prison.

Society demands that they do time for the unpunished heritage crimes of their parents.

Tension is simmering inside the jail.

When the tension breaks and a riot begins, Ant realizes they’ve got one chance to break out.

It’s time for Ant to show the world that they’re NOT TO BLAME.

 

Harry Potter fans…

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For all the Harry Potter fans out there, you have 27 days left to watch a really interesting BBC 2 programme called Harry Potter: A History of Magic, which celebrates the new exhibition at the British Library about the magic behind the books.

Click here to find out more about the exhibition, 

or

Click here to go to the BBC programme details.

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green – Book of the Week

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This week’s Book of the Week is the long-awaited Turtles All The Way Down, by John Green – it’s not actually on the display yet, because I’m still reading it!

The blurb says:

Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.

I am on the last-but-one chapter, so it will be available to borrow soon – watch the display!

Pax by Sara Pennypacker – Book of the Week

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I loved this book so much that I thought I’d share it by making it Book of the Week.

‘I had a fox. I have a fox… We left him on the side of the road. My dad said we had to, but I should never have done it.’

Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a cub. But when Peter is forced to return his fox to the wild his world is torn apart.

Despite the encroaching war, and the three hundred miles between them, Peter sets out to find his fox. Meanwhile Pax waits hopefully for his boy…