A Room Full Of Chocolate
Jane Elson Grace’s fun loving Mum has found a lump. Her north London world of sleepovers, tap dancing and playing the clarinet fall apart when she is sent to live with her grumpy old granddad on his farm in Yorkshire…
Retribution Tour: Top Ten Inspirational Authors
Big Book Little Book welcomes Virginia Brasch as she shares her top ten of inspirational authors. An eye for an eye. Bailey Russell is an assassin on an Artemis Agency assignment that is both business and personal: take out Amir…
Bookish Brits: Drummer Girl Buddy Review
Bridget Tyler It was supposed to be the summer of her life. Instead, 17-year-old Lucy finds her best friend Harper shot dead in an LA swimming pool. How did it come to this? Lucy Gosling is the drummer in Crush,…
Wonder
R.J. Palacio “My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.” Wonder is probably the most thought-provoking book I’ve read in a long while. It makes you feel angry about the injustice…
Switching To Teens
After producing five books for adults, award-winning novelist Martyn Bedford now writes teenage fiction. Here he explains why he made the switch to a different readership. When a family holiday ends in tragedy, the grieving parents’ marriage is left in…
Bookish Brits: TFiOS Trailer Reaction
Yesterday there was a great deal of soggy, tear stained, excitement in the blogosphere. It was all down to the release of the trailer for The Fault In Our Stars movie, based on the heartbreaking book by John Green. Take…
Darcy Burdock
Laura Dockrill Introducing Darcy Burdock, a new, cool, all-conquering girl character with a fresh and distinctive take on the world. Ten-year-old Darcy is one of life’s noticers. Curious, smart-as-a-whip, funny and fiercely loyal, she sees the extraordinary in the everyday…
Bookish Brits Book Club: The Princess Diaries
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Roller Girls: Falling Hard
Megan Sparks When Annie moves from London to a small town in the midwest, she struggles to fit in. She gets off to a bad start when she makes an enemy of her school’s queen bee, Kelsey. But she discovers…
Hurt
Tabitha Suzuma At seventeen, Mathéo Walsh appears to have it all. He is a champion diver and a hot prospect for the upcoming Olympics. He is a heartthrob, a straight A student and lives in one of the wealthiest areas…
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