Illustrator Q&A: Good Boy – Mal Peet (Auth.) and Emma Shoard (Illus.)

March 15, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

I interview the talented illustrator Emma Shoard about her work on Mal Peet’s Good Boy.

Book Review: The New Boy – Paula Rawsthorne [YA]

March 3, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

There’s a new boy at Zoe’s Sixth Form College. What’s so unusual about that? Perhaps all is not what it seems…

Scholastic Book Feast 2019 (and Other Adventures)

February 17, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

There ain’t no party like a Scholastic party! (I need to get out more)

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Year After You – Nina de Pass

February 5, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Synopsis On New Years Eve in San Francisco, Cara is in a deadly car crash. Incredibly, she survives, but her best friend Georgina is not so lucky. Consumed by guilt and grief, Cara is sent to a Swiss boarding school by her mother, believing it will be the fresh start Cara needs. But Cara knows […]

Mini Book Review: Two Can Keep A Secret – Karen M. McManus

January 19, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Title: Two Can Keep A SecretAuthor: Karen M. McManusPublisher: Penguin BooksPublication date: Out now Synopsis Echo Ridge is reeling. This picturesque town, nestled near the Canadian border, experienced its first tragic loss in 1995 when high-school senior Sarah Corcoran vanished while walking home from the library. Then five years ago, homecoming queen Lacey Kilduff was […]

Book Review: Five Feet Apart – Rachael Lippincott

December 17, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Title: Five Feet ApartAuthor: Rachael LippincottPublisher: Simon and SchusterPublication date: 10th January 2019 (UK) Synopsis Stella Grant likes to be in control – even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself […]