We try to acquire Young Adult titles as soon as they are published. We are also quick to respond to boys' requests as they tend to be very quick off the mark when the latest book in a series is out! We work very closely with teaching staff to ensure we provide rich background reading to support academic projects.
Book of the month
Charles Dickens ~ Oliver Twist
Dickens's second novel (1838) is a scalding indictment of child labour, the Poor Laws and the hypocrisy of Victorian society. Orphaned at birth and abandoned to the hardships of the workhouse, Oliver Twist lives a gruelling life of poverty. Desperate to escape his heartless tormenters, he runs away to start a better life in London but, once there, he is befriended by a young pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger, who introduces him to Fagin and his gang of thieves. A chance encounter gives Oliver the opportunity to escape the criminal underworld, but Fagin won't let him get away so easily--and just when everything seems hopeless, events take a most unexpected turn.
Other new fiction for younger readers includes:
The Prisoner by Robert Muchamore (the latest Henderson Boys title)
Praetorian by Simon Scarrow (book 10 in the Roman Legion series)
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (final part of the Eragon trilogy)
The complete H.I.V.E. series by Mark Walden
The complete Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig (who came in to talk about his books on 29th February)
The complete Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d’Lacey
………and many others
And for older readers:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
A.D. Miller Snowdrops
Pure by Andrew Miller
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
