Life hard for gun. Life hard for boy. Boy take me with him when he leave men. Men use other gun like me kill people. Make boy use me kill people. Life not good. I gun. Made to kill. Boy shoot me…that not right. Boy shoot WITH me. I best friend he have ...

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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Daisy is sent to England from New York to live with her cousins for a perfect summer. There are four of them: Osbert, Isaac, Edmond and Piper. Three boys and a girl. And two dogs and a goat. Daisy has never met anyone ...

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Secrets and Sisterhood by Jenny Pausacker Apparently we’re going to a demo. I’ve seen pictures of demos in the newspapers of course – people marching down the street, holding banners and bits of cardboard with signs on them… But this demo sounded like it was just for women. I didn’t ...

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A Fatal Tide by Steve Sailah ‘His promise to himself to avenge his father was turning out like the Dardanelles, like nothing he had imagined…’ It is 1915 and Thomas Clare rues the day he and his best friend, Snow, went to war to solve the murder of his father. ...

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I listen to the radio today, the news is very hard to hear. What I hear about about Palestine and Israel, Syria and Iraq takes me back to my war, my work with La Résistance française in my home in Normandy. We started early in the war, Patrice organised us but ...

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  I was given this book before I left for America and as they didn’t need it back I took it with me and left it in the hotel in New York on their pile of books, it felt appropriate to me. I did read it before I left it ...

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I’ve read a number of memoirs written by Jews about their life during the Holocaust, how they survived and how they rebuilt their lives afterwards but this is the first book I’ve read from a non-Jewish viewpoint. Liubinas was born in Lithuania and fled with her family from the Russians ...

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First came the Tomorrow series, followed by The Ellie Chronicles. This book is the third volume in The Ellie Chronicles. I managed to pick up Incurable and Circle of Flight at the same time and thought I’d picked up the earlier book of the two, unfortunately I managed to get ...

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John Marsden was a secondary school teacher before he started writing books and it shows with his writing. He has a knack for getting insider a teenager’s head and explaining how they’re feeling using their language. Let me tell you a bit about this book. Seven teenagers go away to ...

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