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May 31, 2024 40 mins

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 20

For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-20/

Part 1
Book post

  • Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke
  • The Teenage Guide to Digital Wellbeing by Tanya Goodin
  • Old Oak and the Wild Flowers by Elena Mannion and Erin Brown
  • Where’s Mog? by Judith Kerr
  • Supersaurus: Total Tricera-Flop! by Angela Woolfe and Mark Chambers
  • Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke
  • Bad United: Just for Kicks by Louise Forshaw
  • Max Magic 3 by Stephen Mulhern and Tom Easton
  • The Beast of Farrowfell by Ravena Guron
  • Knowing the Score by Ros Roberts
  • Your Time Is Up by Sarah Naughton
  • Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in June 2024

  • The Last Dragon by  Polly Ho-Yen
  • Bobby Bains Plays a Blinder by  Bali Rai
  • The Big Day by Rachel Plummer
  • The River Spirit by  Lucy Strange
  • The Mercury In Me by Rachael Fernandes
  • Kofi and the Secret Radio Station by Jeffrey Boakye
  • Apocalypse Cow by O.R. Sorrel
  • The Big Ask by  Simon James Green
  • Everybody Travels by Kristin Roskifte
  • Time Runs Like A River by Emma Carlisle
  • The Boy, the Troll and the Chalk by Anne Booth
  • Nora and the Map of Mayhem by Joseph Elliott
  • Ajay and the Treasure of Thar by Varsha Shah
  • A Work in Progress by Jarrett Lerner
  • A Ship in the Dark by Yarrow Townsend
  • Welcome to AI by Matthieu Dugal
  • Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield
  • Cosima Unfortunate Foils a Fraud by Laura Noakes
  • The Double Life of Ted Amos by Simon James Green
  • We Have Everything We Need To Start Again by Koleka Putuma
  • Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
  • Transcendent by Patrick Gallagher
  • Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo
  • Sleep Like Death by  Kalynn Bayron
  • Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
  • A Case of High Stakes by  Sophie Cleverly
  • Human Body by Isabel Thomas
  • The Nine Night Mystery by Sharna Jackson
  • The Tall Man by Mary Cathleen Brown
  • Make Art or Die Trying by Stuart Semple

June 2024 books of the month

  • Fiction:  Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial by Kieran Larwood
  • Nonfiction:  Galápagos Islands by Karen Romano Young, illustrated by Amy Grimes
  • Picture book:  You Got This! by Rachael Davis

Part 2
Crime fiction for teens - our rundown

New book pitches: There Was an Old Woman Who Followed a Spy! by Tommy Furmato; Luna and Helio The Eclipse by Gina Keulemans; Insects, Bugs and Rock and Roll by Alex Brooks; I Can Be An Astronaut by Dr Katy Chisenga-Phillipps

Part 3
Drop Everything And Read (DEAR). Ideas and strategies for schools. 

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