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title: "Help with books"
url: "https://parklandsacademy.co.uk/parklands-life/help-with-books"
school: "Parklands High School"
---

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# Help with books

### **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**

**![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Oh6fP8tn3InBFK2cY8owIQr32StRw3ifb8LJCmEMrm1bT7bMGkkdFtmYK4ZZLuopG3nMiVu-GuQ5Cpkcq9V_iBLcMcpR_Z092fHNiS5XhQFhrPomF-jPlzuLxz5CnFQ-sIYHyr_L)**

**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**

**![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N9op-yZQiEPS3QFA2LKg4_LNBzUC-mOPaV-EJzZgAHZDUq1ShrhL6aMq3JUpJKkuSO7DEK9sjTBaQVCgghtncgvzXbUTj5GG1Yto9Aoq3meDtkJOgCZ9astmFwp-ui_7XnMrb6AK)**

**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**

**![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/S32bxWORyy5HfzkKWVSsAanqKK4JbCXTJ3ahykvWICcWKzEb29Dzo78WzqBeLAHr46pjvrnK4BukktXPU2_x3FlqA-1D_QtE55ZZUbuTAbjj3uauZWzW28sTCMWuTEXF3lGi2kMR)**

**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**

**![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZRLk0GllYgzSm23qWfjkO-XKf92UzBL4Zjq3pvq9WaghGY6XvIT_cOwYoyAaMvsMAL4ph0NbQikv3SncDQGovPq-F0gb6HQhzadUlTW9Ifq8Mp55Hw54wtsrvG6958dzsrGnawMp)**

**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**

**![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/gS1Fa0FnyndqmuG8eKjakOKatuN1TDYQwaY1G0hyZjLt3hWIavboAVX_G9QQOm0ZBpSKJgvsZXxgK7XMauZBEc9eZIBwAy5lcEVU26TfF7XQi3IboK3ZPxQnL4L5nmyFr9667TRF)**

**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.

[YouTube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Op9T2TltSl8?rel=0)

#### To get started click [here](https://apps.libresoft.co.uk/8884311-gpzuqz5yjyn08y10o2tb-phs/)

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