Episode 10 - How to halt the summer slide by encouraging students to read.

School Reading List

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 10

For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-10

Part 1
Book post

• Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
• Are We There Yet? by Sven Völker
• Glow by Noelia González
• Rubbish? by Linda Newbery & Katie Rewse
• Postman Pig and His Busy Neighbours by Richard Scarry
• Let's Go! Hospital by Catherine Ard and Ben Whitehouse
• Forwards Always by Matthew Hodson
• Growing Up Powerful by Nona Willis Aronowitz and Caribay Marquina
• Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
• How Far We've Come by Joyce Efia Harmer
• Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts by William Hussey
• Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure by Sai Pathmanathan

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in May 2023

• Nooo! Not the Dentist! By Stephanie Blake
• Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake by Andrea Beaty
• Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan
• How to Build a Racing Car by Fran Scott
• You Are a Story by Laura Dockrill
• Wild by Ele Fountain
• Jodie by Hilary McKay
• Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
• An Anthology Of Aesop's Animal Fables by Helen Ward
• Glow by Noelia Gonzalez
• Philosophy for Everyone by Clive Gifford
• No Place for Monsters: School of Phantoms by Kory Merritt
• Holey Moley by Bethan Clarke
• Weird Sea by Sophie Burrows
• Surprisingly Sarah by Terri Libenson
• Where the Light Goes by Sara Barnard
• Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
• The Invitation by Stacey May Fowles
• The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman
• The Lesbiana's Guide To Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
• Time to Shine at the River School by Sabine Adeyinka
• The Thief of Farrowfell by Ravena Guron
• More Peas Please! By Tom McLaughlin
• Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star by Laura Noakes
• Manolo & the Unicorn by Jackie Azua Kramer & Jonah Kramer
• In Your Orbit by Lise Villadsen
• Rivers by Simon Chapman
• Rory's Room of Rectangles by Ian Eagleton
• Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts by William Hussey
• Marvellous Maps by Simon Kuestenmacher
• There's a Hippo in my Toilet! By Sam Taplin

May 2023 books of the month

• Fiction: Away With Words by Sophie Cameron
• Nonfiction: Glow by Noelia González
• Picture book: Are We There Yet? by Sven Völker

Part 2
How to halt the summer slide by encouraging students to read. See summer reading can energise your students

New book pitches: Katy on Broadway by Ella English, Movie Night with the Wizziwigs by Saxon North-Cornell, The 4th Dimension by Dr. Joseph J. Pamelia
Part 3
Picks for Pride Month including titles from our books for year 11 and books for year 10 lists

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