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Book of the Month - April 2024
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
What is the central setting of the novel "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner?
- A magical School
- A dystopian city
- A mysterious maze
- A space station
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This Months Book
Truly, Devious
by Maureen Johnson
Synopsis:
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.”
Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.
True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.
The two interwoven mysteries of this first book in the Truly Devious series dovetail brilliantly, and Stevie Bell will continue her relentless quest for the murderers in books two and three.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29589074-truly-devious
Book of the Month - March 2024
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
"The Witcher" series on Netflix is based on books written by which Author?
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- George R.R. Martin
- Andrzej Sapkowski
- Philip Pullman
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BOOK OF THE MONTH WINNER: Check MyDay for this months winner.
This Months Book
So Let Them Burn
by Kamilah Cole
Synopsis:
Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who's forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland.
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She's a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors.
When she's forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn't expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon—or the gods claiming the only way to break that bond is to kill her sister.
As Faron's desperation to find another solution takes her down a dark path, and Elara discovers the shocking secrets at the heart of the Langley Empire, both must make difficult choices that will shape each other's lives, as well as the fate of their world.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61219118-so-let-them-burn
Book of the Month - February 2024
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
Who wrote the book, The Fault In Our Stars?
- J.K Rowling
- John Steinbeck
- Suzanne Collins
- John Green
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This Months Book
Icebreaker
by Hannah Grace
Synopsis:
Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA.
A competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win.
No exceptions.
Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn’t solve. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey team on the ice rests on his shoulders.
When a misunderstanding results in the two teams sharing a rink, and Anastasia’s partner gets hurt in the aftermath, Nate finds himself swapping his stick for tights, and one scary coach for an even scarier one.
The pair find themselves stuck together in more ways than one, but it’s fine, because Anastasia doesn’t even like hockey players…right?
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61767292-icebreaker
Book of the Month - January 2024
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
The Manga series, Dragon Ball was created in 1984 by who?
- Goko
- Bulma
- Piccolo
- Akira Toriyama
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This Months Book
Iron Widow
by Xiran Jay Zhao
Synopsis:
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.
To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52459864-iron-widow
Book of the Month - December 2023
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
In the book, 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, how many ghosts show up ?
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 1
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This Months Book
Let It Snow
by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
Synopsis:
A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end with a delicious kiss from a charming stranger. And no one would think that a trip to the Waffle House through four feet of snow would lead to love with an old friend. Or that the way back to true love begins with a painfully early morning shift at Starbucks. Thanks to three of today’s bestselling teen authors—John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle—the magic of the holidays shines on these hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and breathtaking kisses.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290383-let-it-snow
Book of the Month - November 2023
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
Which character from Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is turned into an enormous blueberry?
- Charlie Bucket
- Veruca Salt
- Augustus Gloop
- Violet Beauregarde
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This Months Book
Orange is the New Black
by Piper Kerman
Synopsis:
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut, Piper becomes inmate #11187-424. From her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with tokens of generosity, hard truths and simple acts of acceptance.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314763-orange-is-the-new-black
Book of the Month - October 2023
Competition
To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our chosen Book of the Month, just answer the following question:
Who is the main character from the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy, written by Phillip Pullman?
- Lyra Belacqua
- Cate Blanchett
- Kate Winslet
- Natalie Portman
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This Months Book
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
by Lewis Hancox
Synopsis:
A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the same time entirely its own.
Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this... but she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this... but she's refusing to listen.
In WELCOME TO ST. HELL, author-illustrator Lewis Hancox takes readers on the hilarious, heartbreaking, and healing path he took to make it past trauma, confusion, hurt, and dubious fashion choices in order to become the man he was meant to be. It's a remarkable, groundbreaking graphic memoir from an unmistakably bold new voice in comics.
Discover More: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58719265-welcome-to-st-hell
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