Episode 20 - Drop Everything And Read (DEAR)

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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