School Reading List

Episode 10 - How to halt the summer slide by encouraging students to read.

Tom Tolkien Season 1 Episode 10

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 10

For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-10 

Part 1
Book post

  • Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
  • Are We There Yet? by Sven Völker
  • Glow by Noelia González
  • Rubbish? by Linda Newbery & Katie Rewse
  • Postman Pig and His Busy Neighbours by Richard Scarry
  • Let's Go! Hospital by Catherine Ard and Ben Whitehouse
  • Forwards Always by Matthew Hodson
  • Growing Up Powerful by Nona Willis Aronowitz  and Caribay Marquina
  • Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
  • How Far We've Come by Joyce Efia Harmer
  • Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts by William Hussey
  • Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure by Sai Pathmanathan 

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in May 2023

  • Nooo! Not the Dentist! By Stephanie Blake
  • Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake by Andrea Beaty
  • Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan
  • How to Build a Racing Car by Fran Scott
  • You Are a Story by Laura Dockrill
  • Wild by Ele Fountain
  • Jodie by Hilary McKay
  • Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
  • An Anthology Of Aesop's Animal Fables by Helen Ward
  • Glow by Noelia Gonzalez
  • Philosophy for Everyone by Clive Gifford
  • No Place for Monsters: School of Phantoms by Kory Merritt
  • Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke
  • Weird Sea by Sophie Burrows
  • Surprisingly Sarah by Terri Libenson
  • Where the Light Goes by Sara Barnard
  • Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
  • The Invitation by Stacey May Fowles
  • The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman
  • The Lesbiana's Guide To Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
  • Time to Shine at the River School by Sabine Adeyinka
  • The Thief of Farrowfell by Ravena Guron
  • More Peas Please! By Tom McLaughlin
  • Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star by Laura Noakes
  • Manolo & the Unicorn by Jackie Azua Kramer & Jonah Kramer
  • In Your Orbit by Lise Villadsen
  • Rivers by Simon Chapman
  • Rory's Room of Rectangles by Ian Eagleton
  • Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts by William Hussey
  • Marvellous Maps by Simon Kuestenmacher
  • There's a Hippo in my Toilet! By Sam Taplin

May 2023 books of the month

  • Fiction: Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
  • Nonfiction: Glow by Noelia González
  • Picture book: Are We There Yet? by Sven Völker

Part 2
How to halt the summer slide by encouraging students to read. See summer reading can energise your students

New book pitches: Katy on Broadway by Ella English, Movie Night with the Wizziwigs by Saxon North-Cornell, The 4th Dimension by Dr. Joseph J. Pamelia

Part 3
Picks for Pride Month including titles from our books for year 11 and books for year 10 lists

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