In a World of Her Own
Earlier this year I saw Green Day perform at Hyde Park and it was incredible! It was so much fun! I went with my friend Chloe. We got there just as they were starting (Hyde Park is HUGE and we went to the station on the other side of the (seriously, HUGE!) park). So we …
“HERE’S A SMALL FACT YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the …
“‘Are you happy in your life?’ Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he’s never met smirks down and says ‘Welcome back’ In this world he’s woken up …
“In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist live in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and …
“It’s that quick, that strong, that beautiful. And it’s also totally impossible” A friend leant me ‘The Loneliness of Distant Beings’ by Kate Ling. Let me first tell you, it did not disappoint. Throughout this book we follow the main character, Seren. At seventeen years old she lives aboard a ship called the Ventura. Sailing …
“Love Hurts. Makani Young thought she’d left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in withe her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She’s found new friends, and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larson. But her past isn’t far behind. Then, one by one, the students of Osborne High begin to die …