Monday 27 March 2017

Top 10 reads of 2016-2017

We Were Liars - E. Lockhart                                  
 Short description: A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island.               
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.                       
A group of four friends – the Liars – whose friendship turns destructive.               
A revolution. An accident. A secret.                               
Lies upon lies.                                           
True love.                                           
The truth.


Girl Online - Zoella                                      
 Short description: Under the alias Girl Online, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about    friendship, boys, her crazy family and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life.    When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she    meets Noah; a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love – and    capturing every moment of it on her blog.                                                                           
But Noah has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny’s cover – and her closest    friendship – forever.

Girl Online: On Tour – Zoella                                   
Short description: When Noah invites Penny on his European music tour, she can’t wait to    spend time with her rock-god-tastic boyfriend. But, between Noah’s jam-packed schedule    less-than-welcoming bandmates and threatening messages from jealous fans, Penny    wonders whether she’s cut out for life on tour. She can’t help but miss her family, her best    friend Elliot … and her blog, Girl Online.

Can Penny learn to balance life and love on the road, or will she lose everything in pursuit of the perfect summer?

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen                               
Short Description: When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps    onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive.

A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the    circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful equestrienne who is    married to August, a charismatic but violently unpredictable animal trainer. Jacob also meets    Rosie, an elephant who seems unmanageable until he discovers an unusual way to reach    her.

A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray                               
Short description: As the daughter of two brilliant physicists, Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by wild scientific theories, always encouraged to imagine the improbable or even the impossible. But when her father is murdered, Marguerite’s life is turned upside down. All the evidence points to one person – Paul, her parents handsome, enigmatic    protégé. Before the law can touch him, though, Paul uses Marguerite’s mother’s latest invention – a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions – to escape.

With the help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various dimensions, determined to avenge her father. Her parents theorized that people who have met in one reality will be likely to meet in another… that key moments will happen over and over, in different ways. But when Marguerite leaps into each new world, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his guilt and questioning her heart. Before long she realises that what happened to her father may be more complex, and more sinister, than she ever dreamed. Marguerite is swept into an epic love affair that feels both dangerous and inevitable.

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins                                   
Short description: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when he steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before – and survival, for her is second nature. Without meaning to, she becomes a contender. But I she is to win; she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.


Paper towns - John Green                                   
Short description: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificent Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So, when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge – he follows. When their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Margo has disappeared. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues and they’re for him. Embarking on an exhilarating adventure to find her, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees the girl he thought he knew.

Wonder - R.J. Palacio                                       
Short description: My name is August                               
I won’t describe what I look like                              
 Whatever your thinking                                       
It’s probably worse

If I Stay - Gayle Forman                                      
 Short description: Mia is a very gifted cellist. She has everything she could ever want, a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, an amazing best friend, and an amazing career ahead of her in music. All that changes suddenly. Mia and her family have a terrible car accident and Mia is rushed to the ICU. Mia is caught between life and death, and watches as family and friends come to visit her at the hospital she is in. Soon Mia realizes that she must make the most critical decision of her life - wake up to live a life more difficult than she ever could have imagined, or slip away and die.

Where She Went - Gayle Forman                               
Short description: It’s been three years since the devastating accident … three years since    Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard’s rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future—and each other.

Written By Lucy Rolph.

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