![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Six clubs were selected by the Booker Prize judges from over 100 applicants and, after joining us at our shortlist announcement party in London on September 6, where the members met the judges and received copies of their assigned book, they set to work. We were looking for a mix of groups that represented the UK as a reading nation clubs that were passionate about books and had built a community together through their shared love of reading. As with all competitions, there would be a winner: representatives from the winning club would be invited to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony on Monday, October 17. In partnership with The Reading Agency, the competition invited book clubs across the UK to apply to join us in rating and reviewing the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist. Earlier this summer, we launched the first ever Booker Prize Book Club Challenge. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is especially proud of The Misfits, which inspired national No Name-Calling Week ( and its sequel Totally Joe. ![]() So far, his imagination has led him to picture books, such as I Wish I Were a Butterfly and Brontorina (about a dinosaur who dreams of being a ballerina), mysteries, poetry (in the upcoming Addie on the Inside), and fiction that deals with issues that matter deeply to him. But from the beginning of his career (which came about somewhat by accident after asking himself what kind of vampire a rabbit might make), he has been most interested in letting his imagination take him in whatever direction it cared to. White Read Aloud Award-winning Houndsley and Catina and its sequels. It sometimes confuses people that the author of the humorous Bunnicula series also wrote the dark young adult novel, The Watcher, or such beginning reader series as Pinky and Rex and the E.B. James Howe has written more than eighty books in the thirty-plus years he's been writing for young readers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s always a lot going on this book. The Book of Three follows the story of Taran and what happens when his pig, Hen Wen, goes missing. I’m not so keen on the border, but it still works well. ![]() I really love books with illustrated covers, and this is no exception. It shows what’s going on in the book really well, and it’s very pretty too. Although it’s a children’s book, I really enjoyed the story and the characters and I will definitely be reading the second book. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander is the first book in The Chronicles of Prydain.Įver since finding out that The Black Cauldron (a film I was totally in love with as a child) was based on a book series, I had to start this series. Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper wants to become a hero, joined by Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard the ever-faithful Gurgi and the curmudgeonly Doli–all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. ![]() ![]() Ellen is never seen without her necklace-and indeed, when Annemarie Johansen urges her to hurriedly take it off after Nazi soldiers arrive at the Johansen’s apartment to search for Ellen and her parents, Ellen confesses that she hasn’t taken the necklace off in so long that she “can’t even remember how to open” its clasp. Though they are not sisters by blood, the mutual respect, devotion, and sacrifice they show one another makes them sisters, perhaps, in an even more profound way. The necklace is a symbol of the sisterhood and shared identity between Ellen and Annemarie. The most potent symbol found within the pages of Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars is Ellen Rosen’s Star of David necklace, a dainty gold chain from which dangles the universal symbol of Judaism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing that the Majar are not invincible, the slaves revolt, allowing David and Ra to escape with Ghak and Dr. While sneaking back into the city, David and Ra are captured and forced to battle a huge monster but they prevail, killing a Majar in the process. ![]() David suggests that Ra organize the tribes to defeat the Majar but Ra shows David the Majar's true power by taking him to the Majar's grotto where he witnesses one of the Majars hypnotize a female slave before swooping down and carrying her off in its powerful talons. ![]() Outside, David meets Ra, the chief of a human tribe. David is able to escape his captors and finds a secret passage out of the Majar city. Perry is sent to transcribe books in the Majar's library. While David is sent to repair the walls that protect the city from the molten lava, Dr. Perry, David and the slaves are taken to the city of the Majars, large telepathic bird-like creatures that rule the underground world. Dia is kidnapped by another human named Hoojah the Sly One, while Dr. Perry and David are captured by strange inhuman soldiers, called Sagoths, and placed with other human slaves, where they meet Ghak and the beautiful Princess Dia. While testing his invention with his financial backer and former student David Innes, the machine malfunctions and the pair end up burrowing deep into the earth to emerge in Pellucidar, a lush underground cavern filled with giant prehistoric creatures. Abner Perry has invented a high-calibration digging machine affectionately called 'The Iron Mole'. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next SelectionĬandace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * M arie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. “A satirical spin on the end times- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” - Estelle Tang, Elle "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." - Michael Schaub, NPR.org ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. ![]() ![]() ![]() But she’s working against a mountain of prejudice – her first set of roommates have her moved to a new room while she’s sleeping at night, and professors give her demerits for behaviors they let slide with other students. Her work is already cut out for – to show that Conjure is a legitimate discipline and that she can learn traditional Marveller practices as well. To that end, she’s enrolling at the Arcanum Training Institute, a sky-borne boarding school for Marveller youth. ![]() Though Ella is proud to be a Conjurer, she’s also joined her father in dreaming of an integrated future. The other community’s members call themselves Marvellers, and call the white light of their inner power starlight. Up until now, though, Conjure has been considered somewhere between lesser and downright wicked by the rest of the magical community, since they specialize in guiding people through the afterlife. Ella Durand has grown up near New Orleans in a magical family that practices the traditional arts of Conjure. ![]() ![]() The island, as Essie aptly puts it, is “where the incurable sick of New York City are sent to die.” Kramer has chosen an innately creepy setting for her historical novel, where ghosts and mysteries swirl and keep company with assumptions and prejudicial thinking, often directed at immigrants arriving at the island’s Riverside Hospital, of which Essie’s stepfather is the director. ![]() Her outgoing best friend, Beatrice, lives in the same New York tenement and helps draw Essie out of her fearful funks, but even Bea can’t help with Essie’s newest problem: her mother’s sudden announcement that she has remarried and the two of them will be moving into her new husband’s house-on North Brother Island. ![]() ![]() Essie has always been an anxious child, but since her father’s death, her anxieties have spiked to debilitating heights, manifesting as panic attacks, night terrors, and a lengthy list of fears she keeps close at hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way he discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the shadowy organization known as The Set. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. ![]() A kandra researcher has returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as writings in a language that no one can read. The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. ![]() Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Book Synopsis From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. ![]() About the Book With The Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Timesbestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The movie features Ed Burns as Travis Ryer, the leader of the safari and Ben Kingsley as Charles Hatton the owner of the safari company. To kill a dinosaur has been reprinted more than two dozen times in collections and anthologies.Ī film adaptation of Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder will make it to the big screen after much delay on September 2nd, 2005 almost two years after it was filmed. Originally published in the Jedition of Collier's magazine, Bradbury’s seminal tale of a hunting safari sent back in time The group finds that the world has been drastically altered by the seemingly innocuous death of a pre-historic butterfly. The rules and leaves the designated path. While the organizers have taken every precaution to minimize the impact of the hunting party on the past, one member violates On the eve of an American presidential election, a party of rich businessmen undertake a time travel safari Andy's Anachronisms - A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury ![]() |