Maelgwn Gwynedd
Location: Conwy, Wales
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: David Walliams,, Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: Keen to read, learn and share in the experiences of the world of books. Fluent in English and Welsh. Ready to involve ourselves in a variety of books
Maelgwn Gwynedd’s contributions:
Mandeville Chatterbooks
Location: St Albans, UK
Reading age: 7 – 11
Favourite authors: Love that dog by Sharon Creech, Werewolf Club Rules by Joseph Coehlo (Poetry collection just won 2015 CLiPPA award) and The Promise by Nicola Davies
Description: We like to use the collective noun ENTHUSIASM for our fabulous Chatterbooks children: an enthusiasm of readers! We meet once a week to eat lunch together, read, talk, write, perform and engage with great books.
Mandeville Chatterbooks’ contributions:
Martin Birds
Location: East Finchley, London
Reading age: 7 – 11
Favourite authors: Anthony Horowitz, J.K. Rowling, David Walliams
Description: As bookworms we love to burrow in our bookshelves in our class/school library. We are avid readers and enjoy escaping reality into the magical world of books.
Martin Birds’ contributions:
Millennium RIOT Readers
Location: Gateshead Town, Ryton County, Tyne & Wear Country
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: Stephanie Meyer, Darren Shan, Andy Briggs
Description: Our group began in March 2012. There’s a mix of boys and girls and 2 staff. We all read different genres of fiction and have different favourite authors. We have shadowed the Carnegie Awards, completed a sponsored read and are currently voting for the North East Teenage Book Awards.
Millennium RIOT Readers’ contributions:
• The Andersons by Zoe Ward – review
• Interworld by Neil Gaiman- review
• Theodore Boone: The Abduction by John Grisham - review
• Heroic by Phil Earle - review
• The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - review
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling - review
• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - review
• Looking for Alaska by John Green - review
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White - review
• Twilight: Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer - review
• The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher – review
• The Savages by Matt Whyman – review
• Saving Silence by Gina Blaxhill – review
• Red Ink by Julie Mayhew – review
• The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher – review
• Looking For Alaska by John Green – review
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men by Derek Landy – review
• Fear by Michael Grant – review
• Emily Feather and the Secret Mirror by Holly Webb – review
• ACID by Emma Pass - review
• Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud - review
• Dodger’s Guide to London by Terry Pratchett - review
• Book of Beasts by Giles Sparrow - review
• Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling - review
• Darren Shan: “I wanted to write about racism in the UK – zombies seemed like a good way to do that.”
• What inspires Anne Cassidy to write her teen crime novels including the award winning Looking for JJ?
• Cliff McNish interview: ‘You don’t have to be good at English at school to be a writer. You need to work really, really hard’
• Shattered by Teri Terry - review
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked by Derek Landy - review
• Slated by Teri Terry - review
• The Chaos Effect by Andy Briggs - review
• The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater - review
• The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan - review
• Secret Breakers: The Knights of Neustria by H L Dennis - review
• Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve - review
• Wanted! by Kate Thompson - review
• The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - review
• In Darkness by Nick Lake - review
• Twin Freaks by Paul Magrs – review
• Little Animal Ark: The Playful Puppy by Lucy Daniels – review
• The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch – review
• Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior by Andy Briggs – review
• Spies in Disguise: Boy in Tights by Kate Scott – review
• Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy – review
• Love, Lucie by Marita Conlon-McKenna – review
• Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson – review
• Koyashan by Darren Shan – review
• Killers of the Dawn by Darren Shan – review
• Horrid Henry Rules the World by Francesca Simon – review
• Framed! (Traces) by Malcolm Rose – review
• Airhead by Meg Cabot – review
• Villain.net 1: Council of Evil by Andy Briggs – review
• Steve Camden: To live a life that revolves around ideas and the journeys they take you on is the best thing ever
• Kevin Brooks: Darkness comes naturally to me – I just can’t help it!
• Why we’re glad The Bunker Diary won the Carnegie
• Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead - review
• I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - review
• Web of Darkness by Bali Rai - review
• The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket - review
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt - review
• Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy by Andy Briggs - review
• My Friend the Enemy by Dan Smith - review
• The Joshua Files: Apocalypse Moon by M.G. Harris - review
• My Dad’s A Birdman by David Almond - review
• Slated by Teri Terry – review
• Tape by Steven Camden - review
• Rainbow Rowell interview: “YA books teach you that your weird stuff is normal.”
• David Almond: each story comes with its own kind of fizz, gurgle and energy
• Tim Bowler: it’s fun. It’s joyous. It’s life affirming. Reading is great!
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
• James Dawson interviewed at the North East Teenage Book Awards
•Louis Sachar: ‘I make up the story as I go along, but a lot of it is really bad’
•David Gatward: ‘I will summon demons and dragons to prove my point’
•Curtis Jobling: ‘My author superpower is the Underpants of Bestsellingness!’
•Demon Dentist by David Walliams - review
•The Lottie Project by Jacqueline Wilson - review
•Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman - review
•A Song For Ella Grey by David Almond - review
•Matilda by Roald Dahl - review
•Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie by Jeff Norton - review
•Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot by Dav Pilkey - review
•Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie: Escape from Camp by Jeff Norton – review
MLC
Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Reading age: 15 - 16
Favourite authors:
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Monkton Prep School
Location: Bath, UK
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: David Almond, David Walliams and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Description: Our group, we think, is best described by these adjectives, joyful, imaginative, good learners, funny and great talkers. We love choosing what we read and solving mysteries. The most exciting event so far this year has been meeting David Almond. We thought the Boy who Swam with Pyranhas was awesome.
Monkton Prep School’s contributions:
• Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead - audio review
• Goth Girl by Chris Riddell – audio review
•World Book Day: children’s authors get grilled by their own creations – video
Monmouth Comprehensive School KS3 Book Club
Location: Monmouth
Reading age: 11 - 14
Favourite authors:
Description: We enjoy reading a wide variety of books but thoroughly enjoyed shadowing the Carnegie Medal last year and our favourite books were Cuckoo Song by Francis Hardinge and Patrick Ness’s More Than This. We have also enjoyed Wonder by R J Palacio and Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. We like thought-provoking books that change the way that you look at the world.
Monmouth Comprehensive School KS3 Book Club’s contributions:
MSJ Readers
Location: Malvern, Worcestershire, UK
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: James Dashner, J.K. Rowling, Michael Morpurgo
Description: Wide range of girls, mainly Year 7, keen to try new books, new authors and keen to impress their English teacher by posting and sharing their own book reviews.
MSJ Readers’ contributions:
Myton Year 7
Location: Warwick, Warwickshire
Reading age: 11 - 12
Favourite authors: Malorie Blackman, David Walliams, Anthony Horowitz (John Green)
Description: Inquisitive group of students wanting to go on an author quest! Our English motto is ‘a book in every bag’ and it’s the best school rule we have! Our aim is to foster a life-long love of reading for all of our students.
Myton Year 7’s contributions:
Newcastle Academy Bookworms
Location: Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
Reading age: 12 - 17
Favourite authors: Suzanne Collins, J.K. Rowling and Rainbow Rowell
Description: The group are a selection of bright and enthusiastic young pupils, who love reading and like to discuss and debate the subjects that they read about. They meet every Thursday lunchtime and discuss the books read each week. They also write reviews for the entire school to see when searching books in the library.
Newcastle Academy Bookworms’ contributions:
Northfield Reading Corps
Location: Billingham, Stockton on Tees
Reading age: 13 - 15
Favourite authors: J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, Roald Dahl
Description: The group has been together since taking part in Stockton Children’s Book of the Year, Booked Up Reading Partnership and Carnegie Shadowing. Last year we were all lucky enough to attend 3 Puffin author talks and meet the fantastic authors Cathy Cassidy, Eion Colfer and Charlie Higson. We have joined together as we are always discussing and sharing our favourite books and love nothing better than a good debate of Twilight vs The Hunger Games or who would win in a fight of… Words to describe us are awesome, imaginative, friendly, creative and magic.
Northfield Reading Corps’ contributions:
Pageturners
Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Reading age: 11 - 15
Favourite books: Hunger, Acid, Ketchup Clouds
Description: A well as talking about books and authors we do lots of related activities from art and craft sessions, storytelling, poetry sessions, making book trailers etc. We take part in our local Doncaster Book Award and in the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards, and organise special author events, drama and dance workshops relating to these.
Pageturners’ contributions:
Patcham High School Reading Group
Location: Brighton, East Sussex
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: Darren Shan, John Green, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: Reading is embedded in the schools’ daily timetable with Drop Everything and Read for 15 minutes at 11.10am; this has promoted an appreciation of books and in some cases an insatiable appetite. We have a diverse membership which has a wide range of reading tastes which is mainly driven by student recommendations and following book series.
Patcham High School Reading Group’s contributions:
Pluckley Readers
Location: Ashford, Kent
Reading age: 7 - 11
Favourite authors: JK Rowling, Michael Morpurgo and Roald Dahl
Description: A group for young readers in Pluckley who love escaping to places that only exist in the imagination. A group who love reading, writing and learning together
Pluckley Readers’ contributions:
Potty for Books
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, England
Reading age: 8 - 9
Favourite authors: Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Murporgo and Roald Dahl
Description: We enjoy reading so much that we want to share our opinions on books and authors with others. We are designing our own reading area at the moment and wonder if we coudl find some super things to put in it, like poster etc.
Potty for Books’ contributions:
Priory Book Club
Location: Edgbaston, Birmingham
Reading age: 10 - 18
Favourite authors:
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Priory Book Club’s contributions:
PTRG
Location: Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales
Reading age: 11 - 15
Favourite authors: Ruta Sepetys, Gemma Malley, Scott Westerfeld (Loads of others including Veronica Roth, Malorie Blackman, Melvin Burgess, Moira Young, Cathy Brett…)
Description: We’re a group of teenage readers that love to meet up every month and chat about our favourite books and what we ‘re loving at the moment. This includes one book that we all read and discuss afterwards. We look at the library’s newest stock and other classic ‘teenage’ books and write regular reviews for the library to recommend books to other teenage readers. From classics to graphic novels or horror to soppy chick lits we look at it all and have fun while we’re doing it...
PTRG’s contributions:
Purple Unicorns
Location: South Nutfield, Surrey, England
Reading age: 8 - 14
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Cathy Cassidy and Ali Sparkes
Description: We are a class group with a deep love of reading. Range of reading varies greatly, but each child reads daily at school and at home.
Purple Unicorns’ contributions:
• Goal! by Robert Rigby - review
• The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton - review
• Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz - review
• Beyond the Deepwoods by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart - review
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - review
• Matilda by Roald Dahl - review
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - review
• Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes - review
• The Stolen Sister by Joan Lingard - review
• The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket - review
• Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver - review
• Sundae Girl by Cathy Cassidy - review
• Mr Stink by David Walliams - review
• The Trenches by Jim Eldridge - review
• Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé - review
• Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis - review
• Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo - review
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - review
• The Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo - review
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo - review
• Shadow by Michael Morpurgo - review
• Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson - review
• Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz - review
• Famous Five on the Case by Enid Blyton - review
• Aggie Lichen: Pilp Collector by Debra J Edwards - review
Queen Anne’s Book Club (QABooC)
Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK
Reading age:11+
Favourite authors: J.K. Rowling, Eva Ibbotson, Tove Jansson
Description: We are a group of enthusiastic, fun-loving girls who love the Library. We meet every week after school, have enjoyed taking part in the Kids’ Lit Quiz and Berkshire Book Award, and look forward to reading more books, discussing them and finding out what makes a book a good read.
Queen Anne’s Book Club (QABooC)‘s contributions:
Raynham Reading Stars
Location: London
Reading age: 8 - 10
Favourite authors: Roald Dahl
Description: We love books. We are a group of Year 4 and 5 readers who know that reading is ‘cool’ and fun. We meet twice a week in our fantastic school library which is full of interesting books. Books inspire the imagination and take us on adventures every time we read.
Raynham Reading Stars’ contributions:
Reading Jaguars
Location: Tucson, Arizona, Pima County, USA
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Rick Riordan, Jerry Spinelli, Suzanne Collins
Description: We are a group of kids in a multi-age classroom. Our class is a co-enrollment class with 13 deaf and hard of hearing kids. We all use ASL in the classroom and love to read.
Reading Jaguars’ contributions:
Reading Partners
Location: Battersea, London
Reading age: 6 – 8
Favourite authors: Alex T Smith, Chris Judge, Dick King Smith
Description: Reading Partners is held on Thursday lunchtimes. The children select books from a well-stocked book area and read for pleasure. As well as the teacher running the club there are a number of adults from a local business who volunteer at Reading Partners and support the children with reading.
Reading Partners’ contributions:
Reading Rebels
Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Reading age: 13 - 15
Favourite authors:
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Reading Worms
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Reading age: 5 - 7
Favourite authors:
Description: We are the Bear Grylls of the reading club, looking forward to exploring and enjoying traditional, modern, short and rather silly books. We want to read and learn but have a lot of fun at the same time. Like most worms we can’t get enough of books!
Reading Worms’ contributions:
Reaseheath Reading group
Location: Nantwich, Cheshire
Reading age: 16 - 18
Favourite authors:
Description: A new reading group based at Reaseheath college to encourage students to read for pleasure. Students will choose their own books and will be able to seek advice from a member of the English department if required. Our aim is to assist student discover the joy in reading!
Reaseheath Reading group’s contributions:
Red4
Location: Dorset
Reading age: 8 - 9
Favourite authors: Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Jeff Kinney
Description: We are a group of keen and confident readers and we enjoy reading both fiction and non-fiction books (we also enjoy writing stories). Earlier this year we began a reading project and as part of this we bought lots of lovely new books. We love to read!
Red4’s contributions:
Review Crew
Location: Barnet, London, England
Reading age: 8 - 12
Favourite authors: John Green, Anthony Horowitz, R.J. Palacio, Hunger Games, Harry Potter
Description: We make up our own rules and don’t follow the crowd. We want to discover new books and let the world know what we think of them. We may all be from one school but we are all so different. This gives us our unique perspective, of which we are very proud.
Review Crew’s contributions:
Rokerarians
Location: Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
Reading age: 8 - 13
Favourite authors: David Walliams, R. Goscinny (Asterix), James Dashner
Description: Tough critics, who love books with a frisson of horror or humour. If they can’t feel their hair standing on end or their funny bones being tickled then books must be so convincingly real that they blink in surprise when they close them.
Rokerarians’ contributions:
Roskear Reviewers
Location: Camborne, Cornwall
Reading age: 7 - 11
Favourite authors: Yet to be voted on!
Description: We are a new group of high achievers in English who meet every Tuesday for English workshops, where we cover all aspects of English including reading, discussing and reviewing all kinds of literature
Roskear Reviewers’s contributions:
• Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre - review
• Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: World War II by Tony Robison - review
• Tony Robinson’s Weird World of Wonders: World War II by Tony Robinson - review
• Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre - review
• Whale Boy by Nicola Davies - review
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell - review
• Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell - review
• A Year without Autumn by Liz Kessler – review
• Philippa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister by Liz Kessler
• Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist by Liz Kessler – review
• North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler – review
• Emily Windsnap and the Siren’s Secret by Liz Kessler – review
• The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler – review
• North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler – review
• Roskear Reviewers - summer recommendations
Saltburn Story Club
Location: Saltburn-by-the-sea, Cleveland, UK
Reading age:7 - 10
Favourite authors: The Wimpy Kid, Beast Quest, and Holly Webb.
Description: Saltburn Story Club gives children the opportunity to develop their own writing projects. We explore writing structures, practise story-telling, and want to find out more about our favourite authors and illustrators.
Saltburn Story Club’s contributions:
Samson Class
Location: Sudbury, Suffolk
Reading age:9 - 11
Favourite authors: David Walliams, Roald Dahl and Michael Morpurgo
Description: We’re a mixed class who meet on Mondays to share interesting facts and opinions about books.We’re trying to challenge ourselves by reading a wider range of books and hope that being part of this community will help us to do that. We really love books that capture our imaginations.
Samson Class’ contributions:
Sapphire Book Surfers
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman, Louis Sachar
Description: We are a group of keen readers, who are always looking for new and inspiring books. Some if us are not native English speakers, and most of us love books, a few reluctant readers will be with us! We like all genres, fiction and non fiction. We want to join this group so we can share and get new ideas for reading.
Sapphire Book Surfers’ contributions:
Seahorses reading club
Location: Plymouth, Devon, UK
Reading age: 8 - 9
Favourite authors: Dick King Smith, Roald Dahl, Michael Morpurgo
Description: We are an enthusiastic group of readers who love to listen, laugh and cry at a good story!
Seahorses reading club’s contributions:
Sheb Readers
Location: Shebbear, Devon, UK
Reading age: 11 – 14
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Malorie Blackman
Description: A fledgling group trying to find time to meet to discuss books. We all love reading but we’re busy doing lots of other things too.
Sheb Readers’ contributions:
SJL Readers
Location: Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK
Reading age: 11 - 14
Favourite authors: Sophie McKenzie, David Walliams, Chris Higgins
Description: We are a small reading group. We all like reading and doing competitions such as the Summer Six reading challenge at school and reviewing books.
SJL Readers’ contributions:
Solent Junior School
Location: Drayton, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Reading age: 7 - 12
Favourite authors: David Walliams (of course!), Rachel Renee Russell, Ali Sparks
Description: We are a book-loving group of children, aged between 7 and 12, who love to escape on adventures, slay dragons and swim with mermaids! We laugh at Demon Dentists and Awful Aunties and relish a good Ali Sparks mystery!
Spilt Ink Book Group’s contributions:
Spilt Ink Book Group
Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors:
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SPRA Reading Challenge
Location: North Hykeham, Lincoln
Reading age: 11 – 16
Favourite authors: Patrick Ness, Meg Rosoff, Sarah Crossan
Description: The Reading Challenge group are pupils from years 7-11 who engage in reading for pleasure by reading a set list produced each year (as well as anything else that they fancy reading!). We meet once a week to discuss the books that we have read.
SPRA Reading Challenge’s contributions:
SSISgr6
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Reading age: 11 – 12
Favourite authors: RJ Palacio, Nancy Farmer, Suzanne Collins
Description: Our group includes all sixth graders at an international school in Vietnam. We are from our host country, the US, the UK, Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, China, Japan, Colombia, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Canada. We are avid readers and would love for our book reviews to have a wider audience.
SSISgr6’s contributions:
Star Anise R
Location: London
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: J.K Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeff Kinney
Description: We love reading books! We enjoy reading reviews from other people and then giving our feedback on it.
Star Anise R’s contributions:
St Andrews Reading Group
Location: Dronfield, Derbyshire
Reading age: 7 - 11
Favourite authors: Roald Dahl, Anne Fine
Description:
St Andrews Reading Group’s contributions:
•Steven Butler: ‘I was always falling out trees and smashing windows. Sorry, Mum…’
St Christopher Junior School Book Club
Location: Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England
Reading age: 8 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpugo, Anthony Horowitz
Description: A newly-established young readers’ book club based at St Christopher School in Letchworth Garden City. The first book that we read and discussed was The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. We are willing to try anything new and exciting but also like to look at old classics.
St Christopher Junior School Book Club’s contributions:
STFS bookworms
Location: Winslow, Buckinghamshire, UK
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: David Walliams, J.K.Rowling, Anthony Horowitz
Description: Our book club is full of book loving people and we’re all a bit crazy. We plan to meet at least twice a week and will use every moment available for reading! Our teachers are enthusiastic about our learning and reading at STFS Bookworms. In the future we hope to have more books here.
STFS bookworms’ contributions:
St George’s Book Club
Location: Taunton, Somerset, UK
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Frank Cottrell Boyce, John Boyne and Lauren Child
Description: We are a group of book lovers who meet in the school library each week to read together and discuss interesting books. There is nothing we like more than to curl up on a soft chair and lose ourselves in a wonderfully exciting story until the end of lunch break!
St George’s Book Club’s contributions:
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio - review
• Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar - review
• Wonder by RJ Palacio - review
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - review
• Group reviews: a selection
St James’s Catholic High School
Location: Cheshire, UK
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: Suzanne Collins, J K Rowling and Jeff Kinney
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St James’s Catholic High School’s contributions:
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
Stockport Grammar Book Club
Location: Stockport, Chesire
Reading age: 11 - 14
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Description: We are a group of male and female students from Stockport Grammar senior school, aged between 11 and 14. We’ve recently met Authors Darren Shan, Kjarten Poskitt, Curtis Jobling and poet Mike Garry. We like lots of authors from Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins, to Robert Muchamore and the Classics. We read anything and everything and regularly share opinions and recommendations as a group over biscuits and juice; we’d be happy to share our book reviews with you too!
Stockport Grammar Book Club’s contributions:
• A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle- review
• A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton- review
• Room by Emma Donaghue- review
• Where Memaids Sing by Brian Keaney- review
• Tightrope by Gillian Cross- review
• Review selection by Jay
St Peter’s Reading Rockets
Location: Henfield, West Sussex
Reading age: 5
Favourite authors: Julia Donaldson, Richard Scarry, Rod Campbell
Description: We are a group of Reception children who are keen to learn to love reading. Our favourite stories are those about animals, monsters, princesses and racing cars!
St Peter’s Reading Rockets’ contributions:
•The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson – review
STREAM book group
Location: South London
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: Katherine Rundell, Malorie Blackman, Holly Smale
Description: Our book group started its life as a small but enthusiastic Carnegie Medal shadowing group but is expanding to explore a range of fiction by authors who will be appearing at the Stream book festival being hosted at our school in November and opened by Malorie Blackman.
STREAM book group’s contributions:
Super Sibling Readers
Location: Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, UK
Reading age: 8 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: We are a group of primary children who all have younger siblings in school. We want to encourage our younger brothers and sisters to read, so we listen to them at home as often as possible. We like finding a cosy place to read with them.
Super Sibling Readers’ contributions:
• Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson - review
Talented Tallanders
Location: Polperro, Cornwall, England
Reading age: 8 - 10
Favourite authors: David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Francesca Simon
Description: We are a class of 22 enthusiastic readers who enjoy a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books from Harry Potter to Mr Gum, via Bear Grylls. We discuss our favourite reads every Friday. Recently, we learned how to write book reviews and now we really want to share them.
Talented Tallanders’ contributions:
•Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling - review
•The High Street by Alice Melvin - review
•Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – review
•Horrid Henry’s Revenge by Francesca Simon – review
TC Bookends
Location: Wolverhampton
Reading age: 12 - 15
Favourite authors: RJ Palacio, Michael Morpurgo, Annabel Pitcher
Description: Our group is a small but dedicated group who meet on a Friday lunchtime and discuss books in general over a mug of hot chocolate and a biscuit or two. The first book we are reading as a group is Sophie McKenzie’s The Set-Up. After this the pupils will take it in turn to choose the book the group reads.
TC Bookends’ contributions:
TCC Einstein Booksters
Location: Battersea, London
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: Suzanne Collins, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeff Kinney
Description: The Einstein Booksters are enthusiastic about the challenge of pioneering a book group in their school. Between them, the members have a wide range of reading interests, from adventure and fantasy to real life drama and humour. They are all full of suggestions about books to recommend to their classmates.
TCC Einstein Booksters’ contributions:
The Amy Bramwell Reading Club
Location: Eltham, South London
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Anne Fine
Description: We meet once a week to read together on a big pile of beanbags. Most of our members are student librarians, so we also talk about how to encourage more people to read books in the school. At the moment we are reading ‘Tulip Touch’ by Anne Fine, but we also bring our own writing to share with the group.
The Amy Bramwell Reading Club’s contributions:
The Argonauts
Location: Warlingham, Surrey
Reading age: 7 - 12
Favourite authors: Eoin Colfer, Jacqueline Wilson, and Jeff Kinney
Description: We are a very small school. We read books and recommend them to each other. We receive Bronze, Silver and Gold Reading Awards each year, depending on the number of books we have read. Last World Book Day we had the author Ciaran Murtagh in to help us write stories - he was very funny.
The Argonauts’ contributions:
The Big Bookathon
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Reading age: 11 - 14
Favourite authors:
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The Big Bookathon’s contributions:
The Book Bandits
Location: Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Jeff Kinney, J.K. Rowling, David Walliams
Description: We are a group of children who enjoy reading books and sharing our ideas about books. We like how books can help us to be more imaginative and take us to a world that we have never been to before. During meetings we enjoy drinking hot chocolate and eating sweets (ssshhhh!)
The Book Bandits’ contributions:
The Book Bunch
Location: Westbury, England
Reading age: 7 - 8
Favourite authors: Jeremy Strong, Michael Morpurgo and Jo Nesbo
Description: Bookbunchers munch and crunch their books and lunch at bookbunch!
The Book Bunch’s contributions:
• Group review selection
• Codename Quicksilver 3: Burning Sky by Allan Jones - review
• Fizzlebert Stump by A. F. Harrold - review
• Winterling by Sarah Prineas - review
• Hooey Higgins Big Day Out by Steve Voake - review
• Butterfly Summer by Ann-Marie Conway - review
• Magical Moon Cat: Moonbeams and the Dream Cafe by Annie Dalton
• The Case of the Racehorse Ringer by Anthony Read - review
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
• Superkid by Claire Freedman and Sarah McIntyre - review
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell - review
• The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynee Reid Banks - review
• Gangsta Granny by David Walliams - review
• Star Fighters: Stealth Force by Max Chase - review
• Can I Come Too? by Brian Patten and Nicola Bayley - review
• Magic Trix by Sara Grant - review
• Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell - review
• Tich Vampire Hunter by Pete Barrett - review
• Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell - Review
• The Witch of Turlingham Academy by Ellie Boswell
• How does Jo Nesbø decide whether to write crime or children’s fiction? - children’s books podcast
• Charlie Merrick’s Misfits by Dave Cousins – review
• I’m Dougal Trump: Where’s my tarantula? by D Trump - review
• The Fabulous Four Fish Fingers by Jason Beresford - review
• The Wombles Go Round the World by Elizabeth Beresford - review
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl - a review to listen to!
• Group reviews: a selection
• Group reviews: a selection
•Just Binnie by Dick King Smith - review
•Group reviews: a selection
The Book Eaters
Location: St Johns Chapel, Weardale, Co. Durham
Reading age: 7 - 9
Favourite authors: Jacqueline Wilson, Roald Dahl, Francesca Simon
Description: We are five bubbly, book-mad, ballistic girls who love reading all kinds of books. We love to explore lots of different authors. We live in the countryside and read outside a lot. We like to share our books and ideas. We meet every Wednesday lunchtime. Sometimes when we meet, we all read a different books but when we get to a good bit we share it. Next week we are going to start Gangster Granny. Our teacher Miss Haynes is a big fan of David Walliams.
The Book Eaters’ contributions:
The Book Munchers
Location: Bath
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: Jeff Kinney, Liz Pichon and Jacqueline Wilson
Description: We are a small group of year six pupil-librarians who read and recommend books to other children in all year groups in the school. Hoping to expand to a book group in the next few weeks.
The Book Munchers’ contributions:
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Group review selection
• Holly Webb: Did you know that rich Victorians would have mummy-unwrapping parties?
• Group reviews: a selection
•Liz Pichon: A lot of the things that Tom gets up to come from my own childhood
The Bookworms
Location: Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland
Reading age: 7 - 12
Favourite authors: Roald Dahl, Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Daniels
Description: The Bookworms is open to everyone within the school. It is good for bringing people together to share an interest. We are supportive of each other and encourage our friends to have confidence reading aloud. Most importantly its a time to chill out, enjoy reading and have fun.
The Bookworms’ contributions:
The Borrowers
Location: Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, England
Reading age: 8 – 12
Favourite authors: Piers Torday, Dick King Smith, RJ Palacio
Description: We love to read! There’s nothing better than chatting about books over hot chocolate and marshmallows. Our school library is central to our book group; we get to read and review new books, which means we can borrow them first but also recommend them, giving others the book bug!
The Borrowers’ contributions:
The Bourbons
Location: Tarporley, Cheshire, UK
Reading age: 12 - 15
Favourite authors: J K Rowling, Michael Grant, John Green
Description: We are an awesome, biscuit-devouring book group who all read widely, passionately and constantly. Our after-book discussions are thought-provoking, hilarious and very clever. We all enjoy our hour after school each Wednesday – eating, talking books and laughing. We also write reviews, do puzzles, booklists, book charades etc.
The Bourbons’ contributions:
The Bulldog Bibliophiles
Location: Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Reading age: 11 - 12
Favourite authors: Kate DiCamillo, Jerry Spinelli, Roald Dahl
Description: Our class is made up of 22 fun and creative students. We live in Bogotá, Colombia, and many of us speak Spanish as a first language. We are each on a journey to read 30 books of different genres this year. We would love to share our reviews with you!
The Bulldog Bibliophiles’ contributions:
• Murder at Midnight by Avi - review
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - review
• Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix - review
• Junie B. Jones And Some Sneaky Peeky Spying by Barbara Park - review
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai - review
• Inkspell by Cornelia Funke - review
• Herobrine Rises by Steve DeWinter and S.D. Stuart - review
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney - review
• Falling Up by Shel Silverstein – review
• Erak’s Ransom by John Flanagan – review
• Divergent by Veronica Roth - review
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper - review
• Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz - review
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - review
• Who Was Dr Seuss? by Janet Pascal - review
• Get the Scoop: Justin Bieber by Ronny Bloom - review
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket - review
• The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenberg - review
• Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - review
The Chocolate Box Girls
Location: Norwich
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams, John Boyne
Description:
The Chocolate Box Girls’ contributions:
The Critics
Location: London
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, William Shakespeare.
Description: We are Year 5 and 6 students that share our love of reading by writing inspirational reviews that will inspire other children to read. The books are chosen in secret by our classes. We also create glossaries to go along with the books to help children understand the tricky bits.
The Critics’ contributions:
The Dixons Kings Readers
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Reading age: 11 – 12
Favourite authors: too many to mention!
Description: a group of boisterous but enthusiastic readers who love to read books by lots of different authors and from a wide range of genres. We meet once a week to take part in reading/book related activities, competitions and to discuss our favourite books and authors.
The Dixons Kings Readers’ contributions
•Group reviews: a selection
•Oksa Pollock: The Forest of Lost Souls by Cendrine Wolf and Anne Plichota - review
•Gypsy Girl by Kathryn James - review
•Bomber by Paul Dowswell - review
•Shouty Kid: How Harry Riddles Mega-Massively Broke the School by Simon Mayle - review
•Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed by Michael Rosen and Neal Layton - review
•Group reviews: a selection
•Group reviews: a selection
•Group reviews: a selection
•A Room Full of Chocolate by Jane Elson – review
•Shirley Hughes: I hope books survive, they are wonderful pieces of technology
•Group reviews: a selection
•Group reviews – a selection
•Dog Ears by Anne Booth – review
•My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons – review
The Dublin Vikings
Location: Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Reading age: 8 – 10
Favourite authors: Roald Dahl, Oliver Jeffers, Enid Blyton
Description: We all read the book, then get together in someone’s house and have fun. We talk about the book a bit, then we might play, or have a quiz. If there is a movie of the book we watch it together and see how like the book it is!
The Dublin Vikings’ contributions
The Eye-boggling Blurbs
Location: Barnet, North London
Reading age: 8 – 9
Favourite authors: Jeff Kinney, Jacqueline Wilson and Cressida Cowell
Description: We are a fun, mixed group of children who are all mad about reading different kinds of books! We cannot wait to start reading new books, writing reviews and telling the rest of the school all about them
The Eye-boggling Blurbs’ contributions
•Jeff Kinney: ‘the joke always comes first’ – children’s books podcast
The Greedy Readers
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Reading age: 11 – 14
Favourite authors: When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan, plus Terry Pratchett, Bernard Cornwall and Simon Scarrow
Description: We met fortnightly to shadow the Carnegie Medal and we don’t want to wait until the next shortlist is announced in March. So we are going to be meeting over lunch ( hence “The Greedy Readers”), blogging, reviewing, sharing and Tweeting to promote our love of reading.
The Greedy Readers’ contributions
The Langhansinites
Location: Berlin, Germany
Reading age: 12 - 15
Favourite authors: Malorie Blackman, Suzanne Collins and JK Rowling
Description: We are students of Nelson Mandela School in Berlin and we love to read! Following the credo of our namesake, we like books that deal with issues of social justice whereas we like all kinds of genres. As a group, we are very diverse and come from all across the world and bring together a plethora of different experiences and backgrounds.
The Langhansinites’ Contributions:
The Lightening Readers
Location: Manchester, UK
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling
Description: We are a newly formed yr5/6 lunchtime book club. We are mixed ages and reading ability but have one thing in common; we love books and we love talking about books.
The Lightening Readers’ Contributions:
The Lower School Book Club
Location: Mayfield, East Sussex
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors:
Description:
The Lower School Book Club’ contributions:
The Misunderstoods
Location: Lichfield, Staffordshire
Reading age: 11 - 13
Favourite authors: Robert Muchamore, Michael Morpurgo and Lemony Snicket
Description: Read and review, Is what we do. Books at school are really cool.
We are a group of misunderstood people. Other people think we are nerds but we just love books and going to the club. We have a different theme each week at our club and read lots of different types of books. Miss Downey is the leader of our rabble of readers.
The Misunderstoods’ contributions:
The Page Turners
Location: Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
Reading age:
Favourite authors: Michael Grant, James Dashner, Veronica Roth
Description: In meetings, our agenda is pretty simple: eat biscuits and discuss books. We are committed to being an inclusive group, where each member feels comfortable to voice their opinions, however controversial (Harry Potter is overrated?!). We have lots of themed meetings coming up – including a Sherlock Holmes detection special!
The Page Turners’ contributions:
The Prestons
Location: Leyland, Lancs
Reading age: 8 - 13
Favourite authors: Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling
Description: We’re a family of 5. 3/4 of us are looking forward to becoming members of our own book club, sharing our book reviews with others. Jessie’s idea to join (aged 8); sister close to follow suit (9); little boy aged 2 will more than likely attend but not contribute. We feel this will assist our goal to spend non-all-tech-influenced time together. Reading with review with a taste of tech is an ideal opportunity for us to achieve that.
The Prestons’ contributions:
The Priory Witham Academy
Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Reading age: 11 – 18
Favourite authors: Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, Harry Mitchell-Morgan, J.A. Buckle
Description: We’re a group of avid readers who love nothing better than to read and talk about books. We read more or less everything and are counting the days until the third part of Magisterium comes out! We are all keen writers and even have a manga artist amongst us!
The Priory Witham Academy’ contributions:
The Reading Machine
Location: Winthrop, MA, USA
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket and Gary D Schmidt
Description: The kids in the group are ferocious readers and several are gifted musicians and martial artists. One is an ice-hockey fanatic. All love acting and last year they read four Shakespeare plays. They are curious, vibrant, passionate, articulate and have an excellent sense of humour!
The Reading Machine’s contributions:
The Reading Rhinos
Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Reading age: 9 - 10
Favourite authors: Jeff Kinney, Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: The Reading Rhinos meet weekly to read and discuss our favourite books. We are BIG Wimpy Kid fans but also love Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Renee Russell. We are a brand new group so we haven’t got up to much yet but we have begun with ‘Speedbooking’ and our teacher has started to read Demon Dentist to the group. In our first group we described ourselves ‘funny, ecstatic, helpful, calm and crazy’ so as you can see we are a real mixture bonded together by a desire to read really great books’.
The Reading Rhinos’ contributions:
•Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson - review
•The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani – review
•Group reviews: a selection
The Secret Superhero Book Club
Location: Eltham, South London
Reading age: 13 - 15
Favourite authors: John Green, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransome Riggs and The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brook
Description: We meet regularly to talk about what we are reading and can never agree on our favourite books! We are keen writers as well, so most of our reading is used as inspiration for our own work. We particularly like ghost and horror stories and like to avoid the obvious.
The Secret Superhero Book Club’s contributions:
The Sizzling Wonders
Location: East Finchley, London
Reading age: 6 – 7
Favourite authors: Julia Donaldson, Roald Dahl and Lauren Child
Description: We are a dynamic, creative, excitable, unstoppable bunch of readers! We love books, reading them, writing them, creating them and looking after them! Reading makes us feel happy and swept away into other far-off realms. We learn things from them and get absorbed in them. Books inspire us, motivate us and make us smile! We LOVE books!
The Sizzling Wonders’ contributions:
The [uber cool] Teen Reading Group York
Location: York
Reading age: 12 – 15
Favourite authors: James Dawson, Michelle Harrison, Mal Peet and Derek Landy
Description: Our reading group is for book lovers, whatever their genre. We love to read new book, and recommend our favouites. We meet to share our love of books with other people with the same passion, and welcome all to come and join us.
The [uber cool] Teen Reading Group York’s contributions:
The Walking Read
Location: East Renfrewshire, Glasgow
Reading age: 11 – 18
Favourite authors: Darren Shan, Julie Bertegna and anything on the Carnegie shortlist!
Description: A hotchpotch, mishmash, clanjamfrie of readers and talkers. From the always on time, always read, always prepared to the hanging by the seat of their pants parachute in and disappear bibliophiles. But always biscuits!
The Walking Read’s contributions:
The Word Wallowers
Location: London, UK
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Cornelia Funke, J.K. Rowling, Lauren St John
Description: Some of us devour books, other take their time. But all of us love to read at our own pace. Words touch our imagination and the pages come to life as the words swim along in our minds. We let ourselves laugh and cry and imagine as we wallow in words made from ink. We adore and cherish books!
The Word Wallowers’ contributions:
Torkington Tales
Location: Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire
Reading age: 7 - 11
Favourite authors: Jeff Kinney, Kes Gray, David Walliams
Description: Torkington Primary is bursting with a new generation of readers! We are all wonderfully individual but we are an enthusiastic, creative, curious and outstanding team. We love funny books that make us laugh and we want reading to be an ‘experience’.
Torkington Tales’ contributions:
•Group Reviews – a selection
•Group Reviews - a selection
Trim Library Junior Book Club
Location: Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland
Reading age: 8 - 12
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, Jeremy Strong and Eoin Colfer
Description: Trim Library Junior Book Clubs have been running for over 6 years now. We meet once a month to discuss our chosen book. We also do quizzes, write reviews, have debates, enter competitions and do many other book-related activities. We’re a mixed group of boys and girls.
Trim Library Junior Book Club’s contributions:
Valley Park School Reading Group
Location: Kent
Reading age: 11 – 14
Favourite authors: Sally Gardner, Chris Riddell, Sarah Crossnan
Description: Our group will be taking on a “Summer Reading Challenge”. In addition to our 3 favourite books we are reading and discussing: Osbert The Avenger, The Dark Lord: The Teenage Years, Boys Don’t Knit, Hyperspace High: Crash Landing, Waiting for Gonzo and Don’t Even Think About It.
Valley Park School Reading Group’s contributions:
Walbottle Campus Bookaholics
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Reading age: 12 - 13
Favourite authors: David Walliams, Suzanne Collins and Jonathan Stroud
Description: At bookaholics we like to read popular books and make book trailers and reviews using new technology to make books come to life. We do fun activities such as book bingo that encourage us to read new genres and widen our book choices.
Walbottle Campus Bookaholics’ contributions:
Walbottle Campus KS4 Book Club
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Reading age: 14 - 18
Favourite authors: Veronica Roth, Terri Terry and Suzanne Collins
Description: Our book club is small but we still meet once every two weeks and really enjoy taking about the books we have read or are reading, it’s a great way to find out about new books and its nice talking to people who are interested in the same things as you.
Walbottle Campus KS4 Book Club’s contributions:
Warmington Readers
Location: Warmington, Northamptonshire
Reading age: 7 - 10
Favourite authors: Jill Murphy, Jeff Kinney, Roald Dahl
Description: Our group started this year and meet at lunchtime in school every 3 weeks. We choose what to read, discuss our books, rate them and publish the information to help others in the school choose good books to read.
Warmington Readers’ contributions:
Warren Primary...Reading Recommendations
Location: Chafford Hundred, Essex
Reading age: 7 - 8
Favourite authors: Jeremy Strong, Roald Dahl, Dick King-Smith
Description: At Warren Primary we love to read. We think reading is brilliant. One of the most fantastic things about reading is that you can read so many different types of books. We have a fantastic book corner in our classroom with hundreds of books to read all year. We like to read Horrid Henry, Dirty Bertie, Beast Quest and Roald Dahl books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
Warren Primary...Reading Recommendations’ contributions:
We Can’t Stop Reading
Location: Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, UK
Reading age: 9 - 10
Favourite authors: David Walliams, Michael Murporgo, Enid Blyton
Description: We are a chatty and imaginative group, a mix of boys and girls. We read fiction of all kinds and are keen to try new authors and genres. We enjoy good characters, some classics and lots of fantasy. Some of us go to Author Club (writing) as well.
We Can’t Stop Reading’s contributions
“We Don’t Shut Up!” - Bromborough Teens Book Club
Location: Bromborough, Wirral, UK
Reading age: 11 - 15
Favourite authors: We’re very new, so haven’t picked favourites yet! Current books are Coraline (Neil Gaiman); Once (Morris Gleitzman); Skellig (David Almond)
Description: We’re a chatty, imaginative group of teenagers who meet up twice a month. Half our time is spent as a reading group, talking about the latest book (as well as loads of other things!), while the other half is spent on our own creative writing projects - and eating biscuits!
“We Don’t Shut Up!” - Bromborough Teens Book Club’s contributions:
Weatherhead Word Warriors
Location: Wallasey, Merseyside, UK
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: JK Rowling, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: We’re an open reading group, run through our LRC. We love reading all kinds of books and talking about our favourite plots and characters!
Weatherhead Word Warriors’ contributions:
•The Brockenspectre by Linda Newberry - review
•Dark Satanic Mills by Marcus and Julian Sedgwick, John Higgins, Marc Olivent - review
Whitburn’s Wonderful Writers
Location: Sunderland
Reading age: 12 - 13
Favourite authors: Suzanne Collins, J.K Rowling and Ally Carter
Description: We meet twice a week to read and discuss books and write stories and poems. Most of our members are 12-13 years old and we usually have about 15 pupils meeting every week. The group is comprised of girls only but we are working on getting some boys to join!
Whitburn’s Wonderful Writers’ contributions:
•The City of Light: The Secret of the Tirthas by Steve Griffin - review
•Chocolate Box Girls: what it’s like meeting Cathy Cassidy
Whiteheath Book Ninjas
Location: Ruislip, London
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Rick Riordan, Anthony Horowitz, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: We are part of the Chatterbooks reading group network and meet every week for book-related activities, booktalk and, of course, borrowing wonderful books. Each month we have a different theme, themes this year include comic books and graphic novels, ghost stories, science-fiction and fairy tales.
Whiteheath Book Ninjas’ contributions:
•Cece Bell: I wanted to show what it felt like to be the only deaf kid at my school
Willowtown Wonders
Location: Ebbw Vale, Bleanau Gwent
Reading age: 8 - 12
Favourite authors: Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, J. K. Rowling, and Roald Dahl.
Description: We love to laugh when reading together. We thrive in an action novel and never want to put it down. We have a wide range of age and reading ability which makes our group enjoyable to sit and listen to. Willowtown Wonders wonder what amazing authors will come up with next.
Willowtown Wonders’ contributions:
Willy’s Wonderful Readers
Location: Wirral, Cheshire
Reading age: 7 - 11
Favourite authors: David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton
Description: This is a new group of readers made up of a mixture of lovers of readers and those that are yet to unlock their love for reading. As a group we want to share our favourite books and hear about all the books other people just cannot put down!
Willy’s Wonderful Readers’ contributions:
Windale School
Location: Oxford
Reading age: 10 - 11
Favourite authors: Michael Morpurgo, C.S. Lewis, David Almond
Description: We are book lovers from our school. Since we love reading so much, we wanted to share our passion for books with the world!
Windale School’s contributions:
Windsor readers
Location: Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, UK
Reading age: 9 - 13
Favourite authors: Jonathan Stroud, Holly Smale and Suzanne Collins
Description: The group is full of exciting, imaginative young people who love to discover new worlds in the books that they read and tell the rest of the school their recommendations. We also run a secret book club within the library where some books are wrapped in brown paper with just a clue about what the books are like. We then encourage children to write reviews about their mystery book and pass on what they’ve enjoyed.
Windsor readers’ contributions:
Wix Wordsmiths
Location: Wandsworth
Reading age: 9 - 11
Favourite authors: Anne Fine,Roald Dahl, Jacqueline Wilson
Description: We read, we talk about books, we live through them
Wix Wordsmiths’ contributions:
•Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl - review
Woodbridge High Reading Group
Location: Woodford Green, Essex, England
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: J K Rowling, Christopher Paolini, Michael Grant
Description: Woodbridge High Readers is an inclusive and welcoming group that likes to share titles of “great reads” with each other whether they be classics or newly published. Our members like to chat over biscuits and aren’t afraid to disagree with each other about the ideas which arise from reading different books. We love to read!
Woodbridge High Reading Group’s contributions:
Write for Real
Location: Malvern, Worcestershire, UK
Reading age: 11 - 18
Favourite authors: John Green, Patrick Ness, Veronica Roth
Description: Write For Real is a writers’ group with the mission of writing for real audiences and purposes. Whether it’s novel writing, book reviews or journalism, we have a passion for writing and seek opportunities to be published. Short stories, poetry, author interviews, we at W4R aim to be Real Writers.
Write for Real’s contributions:
Writers Club
Location: Eltham, South London
Reading age: 11 - 16
Favourite authors: Apache by Tanya Landman, The Diary of Anne Frank and Manga, Anime and Comic Books
Description: Our group uses books as a way to think about writing in new ways. We talk a lot about what we read and how it inspires us. We all have very different approaches and like to test new ways of writing together.
Writers Club’s contributions:
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