Book-A-Like: Shining & The Happiest Refugee
Stories of strength, resilience and courage feature in this week’s Book-A-Like. Abdi’s world fell apart when he was only fifteen and Somalia’s vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced […]
Book-A-Like: The Bourne Identity & I Am Pilgrim
They are the men who don’t exist. Men of action. Men with uncertain futures. He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face; strange things he says in […]
Book-A-Like: Paper Towns & On The Jellicoe Road
Mystery abounds in these two great YA reads! Quentin Jacobsen – Q to his friends- is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they’d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q’s nerdy while Margo is uber-cool. One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his […]
Book-A-Like: Half A King & Prince of Thorns
Betrayed. Alone. Two young men fight for their birth-right. They fight to become King. Betrayed by his family and left for dead, Prince Yarvi, reluctant heir to a divided kingdom, has vowed to reclaim a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself […]
