Ten essential books from the last ten years.
Here is a list of ten books for each school year that have been written in the last ten years and are recommended by Mr Johnston. All are available in the library.
Year 7
Malamander – Thomas Taylor
Boy 87 – Ele Fountain
Twitch - MG Leonard
Crater Lake – Jennifer Killick
After Tomorrow – Gillian Cross
Kays Anatomy – Adam Kay
The Boy at the Back of the Class – Onjali Q Rauf
Sky Hawk – Gill Lewis
Mind the Gap – Phil Earle
Floodworld - Tom Huddlestone
Year 8
Gone – Michael Grant
The Wall – William Sutcliffe
Between Shades of Grey – Ruta Sepetys
When the World Was Ours – Liz Kessler
The Weight of Water – Sarah Crossan
Contagion – Teri Terry
Wed Wabbit – Lissa Evans
Remade – Alex Scarrow
The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
Brock – Anthony McGowan
Year 9
Concrete Rose – Angie Thomas
Undone – Cat Clarke
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly – Danielle Jawando
Frozen Charlotte – Alex Bell
Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas
The Surface Breaks – Louise o’Neill
Orangeboy – Patrice Lawrence
After the Fire - Will Hill
The Yearbook – Holly Bourne
The Bunker Diary – Kevin Brooks
Year 10
Harrow lake – Kat Ellis
Why I am no longer talking to white people about race – Renni Eddo-Lodge
Meat Market – Juno Dawson
Last One to Die – Cynthia Murphy
The Girl with All the Gifts – M R Carey
The Nine – Gwen Strauss
You’ll be the Death of Me – Karen M McManus
Genuine Fraud – E Lockhart
The Fountains of Silence – Ruta Sepetys
Furious Thing – Jenny Downham
Year 11
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
The Bricks That Built the Houses – Kae Tempest
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
The Power – Naomi Alderman
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley
Wintergirls –Laurie Halse Anderson
This is going to Hurt – Adam Kay
Click and Collect
If you need a book and it is not your day to come enter the Library, you can use the new Click and Collect system. This system allows you to search the catalogue and click to reserve a book from anywhere you have an internet connection. I will then find this book on the shelf and you can collect it from your form teacher the following morning.
When you have logged in, you can also see which books you already have on loan, books you have previously read and also write reviews.
Please watch the video below about how to login and reserve a book.