An award winning book about a young girl called Annabelle coming of age during the 2nd world war. While the war rages she deals with a much closer threat – a bully who manipulates her way into their community and rips it apart.
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Books for 10-12 Years
Under the Blood Red Sun
Under the Blood Red Sun is about a twelve-year-old Japanese boy named Tomi living in Hawaii during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour in World War 2. This award-winning book is a good springboard to explore the ways in which war impacts on ordinary people’s lives.
Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
Written by Jude Watson (Scholastic) Guest reviewed by Nathalie Hosten, Grade 8, Aka`ula School, Molokai, Hawaii Loot is one of my most favorite books of all time. If you met the main character, March, you would probably think that he’s a normal American teenager. He’s...
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Do you wish there were more books about kick-ass female role models to share with your kids? Superwoman is all well and good but Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is the real deal. Real women doing extraordinary and inspiring things.
The Lotterys Plus One
The Lotterys are a unique and diverse family with four parents, seven kids and five pets – all living happily together in a big old house. Nine-year-old Sumac is looking forward to a long summer of fun until her grumpy grandpa moves in with them.
Freak the Mighty vs The Mighty
Freak the Mighty is a popular middle grade novel, about two unusual boys and their friendship. Max is a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and Kevin (Freak) is a small boy with a near genius brain stuck in leg braces. Our reviewer compares which is better – the book or movie version?
My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
This is the mixed-up summer that twelve-year-old June Farrell learns about making the best pies and sticking by her family – even if it means facing bullying and shame.
4 Kid’s Activity Books
Activity books are a great way to get kids to do some light reading and keep them busy. We tried out a few this holiday and can highly recommend the following…
What Do You Do With A Problem?
What do you do with a problem? Do you ignore it, do you shoo it away or hide from it? A beautifully simple book about facing problems and finding their gifts. When a little boy is filled with anxiety about an unnamed problem following him around, he struggles to think what he can do.
Scavenger Series
Scavenger is a sci-fi series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell about York, a 14 year old zoid (robot) hunter and killer in a world gone mad. Picture robots and humans facing each other in deadly battle.
Hidden
What can one young girl do in the face of Islamophobia and ignorance? How do we work out what’s right and wrong in an increasingly complex world? One cold and misty morning Alix and Samir save a drowning man who turns out to be Muhammed – an undocumented Iraqi immigrant escaping torture and seeking asylum.
The Story Cure
No matter the life experience, adventure or challenge a child is going through, I always find myself thinking: ‘There’s a book for that!’ And now there is a book to tell you which book they should read.
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