Look Beyond Your World

ReadingZone has joined with Macmmillan to celebrate the publisher's Look Beyond Your World campaign by offering the books included in the campaign to teacher and librarian reviewers this summer! There are also discussion notes available for each book.

You can download the PDF with discussion notes, below. If you are interested in helping us review any of these books over the summer, please email: [email protected] Subject: Title of the book you wish to review We will draw a reviewer for each book and have a copy sent to you. The Look Beyond Your World campaign includes seven books that explore diversity, other cultures and varied life experiences and are aimed at readers aged nine to 14 years. The books we are looking for reviewers for include: School for Skylarks by Sam Angus - It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from London to her great-aunt's enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. But then an entire school of evacuated schoolgirls arrives. Coming to England by Floella Benjamin - Floella Benjamin was just a young girl when she arrived in England in 1960 to join her parents. They had left the island paradise of Trinidad to make a new home in London. Tender Earth by Sita Brahmachari - Laila Levenson has always been the baby of the family, but now with her older siblings, Mira and Krish, leaving home just as she starts secondary school, everything feels like it's changing... The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue - Meet the Lotterys: a diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets - living in a big old house, Camelottery. But the arrival of their intolerant grandad turns things upside down. Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird - 12-year-old Omar and his family live in the bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar wants to grow up to become a successful businessman but then the war comes and changes everything. The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas - Grace has Asperger's and her own way of looking at the world. With her horse and best friend, she's fine, but when Grace kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, the world doesn't make much sense to her any more. 928 Miles from Home by Kim Slater - 14-year-old Calum Brooks's gang of mates at school don't like new kids, especially foreign ones. So when Calum's father invites his new Polish girlfriend and her son, Sergei, to move in, Calum's life is turned upside down. Each of these stories give readers a look into the lives of unfamiliar and new voices: from the war-torn streets of Syria and unconventional family structures to experience of life as a teenager with autism. We'd love to know what you think of them! You can download discussion notes for each of these books, in a dedicated booklet, here: