Award Winning Reading
You're about to receive your A-level results & then a future of university &
journalism awaits. But the day they're due to arrive your old girlfriend
Melanie turns up unexpectedly - with a baby. You assume Melanie is
helping a friend, until she nips out to buy some essentials, leaving you
literally holding the baby
Malorie Blackman
Boy’s Don’t Cry
Shortlisted 2012 Lancs Book of the Year
“War,” says the Mayor. “At last.”Three armies march on New Prentisstown,
each one intent on destroying the others… The electrifying finale to the
award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men is a heart-stopping
novel about power, survival, and the devastating realities of war.
Carnegie Medal Winner
Patrick Ness
Monster’s of men
Bloodchild is a young adult novel written by British author Tim Bowler. It
was originally published in 2008 in the UK. Bloodchild opens with a startling
scene of visionary sensation. A boy lies dying in a deserted country lane.
Lancashire Shortlisted
Tim Bowler
Bloodchild
You see, Conor's mother is very ill. Conor needs help to deal with the fact
that he may lose her. Help is sought through a 'monster'. The monster may
be real, or inside Conor's own mind. Is it Conor's 'inner voice'?
Jim Kay
A Monster Calls
Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard
Book
Mary Hooper
The Megan Series
Carnegie Medal Winner
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who
would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?
Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an
eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is
also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last
remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly
constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life,
from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?
See also: Coraline
It is Jack's , Megan's son, first birthday party and the atmosphere is very
tense. But Megan is being distracted by the unusual amount of
telephone calls that her mother is getting. Surely Mum hasn't got a
boyfriend has she?
But it turns out that she has - and what is more, he is moving in. This
really shakes up the dynamics of the house-hold, which Mary Hooper
details with her accustomed very accurate and precise eye for domestic
Award Winning Reading
detail. A must for all Megan fans.
Varjak Paw is a novel by the British author S. F. Said and illustrated by
Dave McKean. The illustrations in this book greatly resemble gothic
forms of art. The novel received a Smarties Gold Award and has been
adapted for other media.
SF Said
Varjak Paw
L. Pichon
Genius Ideas
Seeing Delia without her sunglasses on is a BIG shock for Tom, but
that's nothing compared with the surprise that Dad has in store with his
new-found fitness regime! He says he's going to compete at the school
Sports Day. Can you even imagine the horrendous shame that will
bring? Meanwhile Tom, Derek and Norman are also busy with a training
regime of their own - practising with Dogzombies to make sure they're
ready for the school talent show. The highs and lows of Tom's life are
funnier and more extreme than ever in this fourth wicked diary from the
Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning series!
Best Fiction 5-12’s Waterstones
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 story of the inhabitants of her
street when the bombs begin to fall.
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they
decided to bug the staffroom . . . But then they overhear their teachers
speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn back. And now
they have to explain to the police, the headmistress and their parents
where they've been for a whole week - without mentioning the aliens.
Mark Haddon Boom!
Lissa Evans
Small Change for
Stuart
Sophie McKenzie
Blood Ties
Stuart Horten - ten years old and small for his age - moves to the dreary
town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his new
next-door neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get
even worse.
But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is
swept up in quest to find his great-uncle's lost workshop - a workshop
stuffed with trickery and magic.
When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is
still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to lonely
Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare
her unfavourably to her long-dead sister. But when Rachel and Theo are
attacked by men from RAGE - the Righteous Army against Genetic
Engineering - they are rescued by strangers and taken to meet a
mysterious figure who leads them to make startling discoveries about
their identities, which will affect their past, present, and future in dramatic
and life-altering ways...
ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in
the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on
Award Winning Reading
Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo
Cabret
Bali Rai
The Whisper
Louis Sachar Holes
Chris Higgins
He’s After Me
Karen Wallace
Emerald
Mike Lancaster
0.4
secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlock with an
eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo's undercover lfe, and his most
precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured
notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from
Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and
spellbinding mystery.
Things have calmed down for the Crew (Billy, Ellie, Della, Jas and Will)
and life in the Ghetto is ticking on as usual. But things are about to kickoff all over again. The police have launched Operation Clean-up and
dealers are regularly being pulled off the street and into the police
station. Someone's got to be grassing them up, and soon Nanny and the
Crew are getting blamed. Billy is mugged, Ellie is picked on in school,
and Billy's house is being targeted. The Crew need to find out who's
pointing the finger before things get really serious.
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck going back generations,
so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to
Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised
when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot
wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The
warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley
must dig up the truth.
Anna meets Jem when her life is falling apart. He is everything Anna
needs him to be. Her dad may have run off with a younger woman, her
mum may be a wreck and her younger sister, Livi, is swerving off the
rails - but as long as she has Jem, Anna will be OK.
And for the first time in her life Anna falls. Deeply and truly and
intensely in love.
The end? Not quite...
Emerald St. John is in trouble. She has been condemned to marry a
man she hates, her enemies are conspiring to have her pet bear Molly
torn apart in the baiting pits, and the man she loves is far away on the
high seas. And she has stumbled into a web of spies with a plot to
poison Queen Elizabeth I. To save herself and the kingdom, Emerald
must beat the spies at their own game - which means transforming
herself from a country girl into a lady of the court. Can she do it in time
It's a brave new world. 'My name is Kyle Straker. And I don't exist
anymore.' So begins the story of Kyle Straker, recorded on to old audio
tapes. You might think these tapes are a hoax. But perhaps they contain
the history of a past world...If what the tapes say are true, it means that
everything we think we know is a lie. And if everything we know is a lie
does that mean that we are, too?
His dangerous mission against the mages leads Tom to the Destiny
Blade - a sword with a dark side, and a thirst for blood . . . Will this new
weapon give him a fighting chance against the Fiend?
Joseph Delaney The
Spooks Destiny
Joseph Delaney is Lancashire’s very own successful International
author
Award Winning Reading
Tommy Donbavand
My Teacher ate my
Brain
Here at LSA in October 2012
AUTHOR
TOMMY DONBAVAND
BOOK SIGNING CEREMONY
WORKSHOPS
Miss Edwards had always been good looking - the type of teacher
fancied by older students and male staff alike. Her long, blonde hair
always had that 'just been washed' look to it, and she smelled like a
spring day - all honey and strawberries. Miss Edwards didn't smell of
strawberries any more. She smelled of rotten meat. Of terror. Of death.