This is an amazing thing to find but it will lead the boys - Raphael, Gardo and Jun Jun (known as Rat) - into places even worse than the dump itself.Ī group of five police arrive that night asking if anyone has found a bag. No one would expect to find eleven hundred pesos in a wallet with a map, ID card, photos and a key. The dump workers are also looking for paper if it is white a clean, cardboard, tin cans, glass bottles, clothing and rubber. Plastic, because plastic can be turned into cash, fast - by the kilo." Sophie Cameron's new novel, Away With Words, is a compelling read about language, communication and friendship." I was a trash boy since I was old enough to move without help and pick things up. Find out what inspired her to write the book, what to expect. Here is author SJ Wills introducing Bite Risk, the novel everyone is talking about. The School Library Association has announce the 2023 shortlist for the Information Book Award (IBA), which celebrates the importance of information.īite Risk - The new horror story by SJ Wills Shortlist for the Information Book Award (IBA) 2023 announced Louie Stowell's Loki, A Bad God's Guide To Being Good - about the Norse god being banished to earth to live as an 11 year old schoolboy - has won t. Simon Fox introduces his new thriller, Deadlock, and tells us what inspired this story about a criminal gang, and a boy who is forced to become a j.Ĭhildren's Book Award 2023 winners announced Reflections from a secondary school librarian
Empowering plot, terrific telling, valuable economic education - this timely novel is very well done.
Too close to 'picture books' profiling? A trustier Year 10 fellow took a chance and came back singing praises, so now Trash is flying off the shelf. I believe (just about) the blurb is true for my students and think for myself the cover image appropo but strong Year 9 male readers are hesitant. But read I did and put the book down before the end I did not. My fellow teacher and and I, with a combined sixty years of reading adolescent lit., rolled our eyes. The jacket blurb boasts this book will change life.
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