Accessit Library is the programme you will use when using the Learning Resources Centre (LRC). It helps you search for books, websites, film clips, external databases and more. You can reserve books, set ‘interests’ for notifications, renew loans and view past loans, write book reviews and much more. Our Home […]
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The English Faculty recommend…
A round up of our favourite reads this summer term. Pick up this book if you’re keen to be transported to a side of London you’ve never seen before. One of magic and realism, fear and bravery, life and death. The protagonist Adam’s connection to the Tyger and determination to […]
Continue reading‘Amal Unbound’ by Aisha Saeed (KS3+)
Amal is a young girl who dreams of being a teacher. She stays behind to help her teacher regularly and is a keen reader. After her mother gives birth to another girl and develops post-partum depression, Amal stays at home to look after the home and family and has to […]
Continue reading‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas (Mature Upper KS3+)
Be aware that there is strong language, though it is completely within context and appropriate for the nature of the book. One of the most powerful YA books I have ever read. This is a story of one young girl’s witnessing of police brutality and institutional racism, the impact it […]
Continue readingThe CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2021
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is the UK’s oldest children’s book award, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing for children and young people. The shortlist this year includes our most recent YA Fiction Staff Book Club’s Book of the Month Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo as well as […]
Continue reading‘Things a Bright Girl Can Do’ by Sally Nicholls (Upper KS3+)
Things A Bright Girl Can Do combines fact with fiction in the stories of three girls: Evelyn, May and Nell, each from diverse backgrounds and their experiences through the Suffragette movement and the beginning of WWI. Historical fiction is one of my favourite genres. Things A Bright Girl is an […]
Continue reading‘The Night Diary’ by Veera Hiranandani (KS3+)
This is a beautiful book which explores the power of relationships in its many guises. In particular, I loved the relationship Nisha and her twin brother Armil have – how she sees him and the way they complete each other. I loved the relationship Nisha has with cooking too; how […]
Continue readingJust in!
Hitting the shelves this week in the LRC, are a range of brand new fantastic graphic books and novels including the powerful Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. You can now visit […]
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