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It’s that time of year when we flex our “reading muscles” and race through 6 books in 8 weeks!
This year’s shortlist is a particularly exciting one. Four of the books are very much of the minute, dealing with controversial issues such as teenage pregnancy and murder, with characters, language and attitudes that would be familiar to any young person. A fifth book takes the vampire genre, mixes in traditional myths and legends and produces a beautifully written, very scarey tale. And finally a political novel set in an unidentified communist regime, that encourages us to think about big ideas such as freedom of thought and expression.
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Beast
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The Road of the
Dead
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A Swift Pure Cry
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Just In
Case
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My Swordhand
is Singing
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The Road of
Bones
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Our two reading groups meet during their lunchbreaks, and discuss their response to each of the books. We shall be reviewing each book and voting online for our favourite at the Carnegie website www.ckg.org.uk.
The winner (judged by a national panel of librarians), will be announced on June 21st when we shall hold our annual “literary luncheon” to coincide with the announcement. It is attended by all our readers and staff involved with the Carnegie Shadowing scheme.
Mrs Merrick
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