We're giving away Reading Group sets!

Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2017
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We have some wonderful sets of books to give away to reading groups this month, across primary and secondary schools, including The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson and Ross Welford's What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible!

Each book group set includes ten copies, and we will draw for each book group set. If you would like to be entered into one of our free draws, please email the title you would like and your school's details to: [email protected] (Subject: Book Group Set) Here are the book group sets we are giving away this month, with the kind support of the publishers: WHO LET THE GODS OUT by Maz Evans(Chicken House) 8+ Elliot's mum is ill and his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth and changes Elliot's life forever. The star is Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, and must then turn to the old Olympian gods for help. THE GOLDFISH BOY by Lisa Thompson (Scholastic) 9+ After developing OCD, Matthew, dubbed the 'Goldfish Boy' by local children, refuses to leave his bedroom. From his window he observes his neighbourhood, taking notes of the comings and goings of the people on his street. So when a young toddler goes missing, Matthew is perfectly placed to help solve the child's disappearance. But how can he help if he struggles to even leave his room? WHAT NOT TO DO IF YOU TURN INVISIBLE by Ross Welford 9/10+ (HarperCollins Children's Books) 13-year-old Ethel Leatherhead tries to do the right thing but, when a combination of some internet-bought pills to clear her skin and a dodgy sun lounger turn her invisible, things get out of hand. There is much humour as well as some tender and real explorations of friendships and family tensions as Ethel tries to put things right. WELCOME TO NOWHERE by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan Children's Books) 10+ Welcome to Nowhere follows Omar and his brother Musa as they and their family are forced to flee their home and other safe havens until they find themselves living as refugees in an overcrowded refugee camp in Jordan. A powerful novel that provides a timely reminder that refugees are ordinary people with families, hopes and needs, not statistics. WAITING FOR CALLBACK: TAKE TWO by Perdita and Honor Cargill (Simon & Schuster) 11+ Elektra has finally landed a part in a film - a dream fulfilled, until she works out that Straker is a movie so dystopian that within weeks most of the cast and all of the crew wish that the world had actually ended, in scene one. Great for fans of Geek Girl. THE WITCH'S TEARS by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr 11+(HarperCollins Children's Books) The spellbinding sequel to THE WITCH'S KISS by authors and sisters, Katharine and Elizabeth Corr. It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven, drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack, and big brother Leo is falling apart ... A TRAGIC KIND OF WONDERFUL by Eric Lindstrom 14+((HarperCollins Children's Books) Eric Lindstrom tackles the subject of bipolar disorder bravely and honestly through the novel's main character, Mel Hannigan. Mel is not only having to cope with her mental condition but the tragic loss of her older brother in an accident, betrayal by those she thought were friends and the uncovering of memories and secrets which she has been trying to keep buried.