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Old School
2022 || Paperback || Jeff Kinney || Puffin
Book 10 in the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is here!Life was better in the old days. Or was it?That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world.With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?
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A Map of Home
A Novel
2021 || Paperback || Randa Jarrar || Penguin
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt, to her family's last flight to Texas.
Life on the Refrigerator Door
2015 || Paperback || Alice Kuipers || Macmillan
Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants.
I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen.
And I did the washing up. I'm going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire Life on the Refrigerator Door is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year.
Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer. Stunningly sad but ultimately upli...
To Kill A Mockingbird
2024 || Paperback || Harper Lee || Arrow
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice.