My take on this book: Paris, 1940. France has just been occupied by the Nazi's and Safiyyah is watching her friends leave and disappear one by one. When she realises that, as a muslim girl, there is a role she can play to help her Jewish friends, she leaps at the chance...

My take on this book: Trigger warnings: this book contains racist language, violence, sexual assault, Obah is a slave on a plantation in Barbardos in the 1800s & dreams to escape, just like her mother. Her world changes when she meets Jacob, a strange boy from the future...

My take on this book: Grasmere 1940. While Tarn is grieving the death of her brother in the Battle of Dunkirk, her friends distract her by encouraging her to do her bit for the war. Meanwhile, a secretive villager is carrying out random acts of kindness...

My take on this: All her life, Nesta has lived in the woods with her grandmother, protected from the Authority controlled City, where women must look and dress a certain way, and aren’t allowed outside if they’re unaccompanied by a man.

My take on this book: Thinking about the climate emergency can be scary, but these 9 short stories offer some hope for the future, full of thought provoking solutions that show us what tomorrow could be like. Empowering!

My take on this book: Jess is a scholarship girl at a prestigious boarding school where she has little in common with her rich, entitled school mates. When a student is murdered in the exact same way as a character in a story she wrote, the finger of suspicion points at her..

Christopher's life changes forever when he discovers the Archipelago, a secret island where mythological creatures live alongside humans. When he rescues a baby Griffin and meets a girl called Mal, little does he realise the role they both play in saving the Archipelago

It's Sunday night and Cory's Monday looks grim: he's got a maths test he's not revised for, and he's definitely going to get picked on by his school bully. So when he wakes up the next morning to find its Sunday again, he can't believe his luck, to begin with…

I’ve now read them all. Phew! What a list! For all my Braes High School shortlisters, copies of these books are all available to borrow from the school library. Holiday reading sorted!

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