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Summer Reading Challenge - 10-14s
Here are all our reads for the 10-14s age group. We hope you love them as much as we do and they become a firm fav on your shelf! We've tried our hardest to select books which are part of a series - cos, while it's great to have a favourite, it's also great to read something else once in a while too! (Look for the star) If you don't have a copy of any of these yet, then click the 10ofthose.com link, get hunting for a second hand copy or get an audiobook version! Week 1 Twelve

Nancy Oliver
Jul 63 min read


Skellig - David Almond
My children read this book in school. I had never heard of it before and I have only recently read it for myself. How I have missed out! Here's the story... Michael moves to a new house which needs a lot of work doing to it. At the same time they move, his mother gives birth to his baby sister who is then very poorly and her life hangs in the balance. While all this is happening Michael stumbles on someone - or something - living in his dilapidated garage. A mysterious creatu

Nancy Oliver
Jun 84 min read


The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson & Nick Sharratt
This one was a new one on me, and I have to confess, I was a bit nervous to read it. It tells the story of Dolphin's mum, Marigold, who suffers from manic depression. The story follows both Dolphin and her older sister, Star, as they try to navigate their beautiful but complex mother who is not like any other mum they know, which is both wonderful and painful in equal measure. Jacqueline Wilson is a master of this kind of topic - managing to melt the wildly difficult with the

Nancy Oliver
May 253 min read
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