Summer Reads
Why not spend your summer sitting on grass with an iced lemonade and a book? Does that not sound fun? Here are some new and enjoyable books to make your summer that little bit better.
1. Small great things – Jodi Picoult
A book provoking thoughts of racial inequality, Ruth is a black nurse who has been banned from touching a white baby. When that baby needs CPR, Ruth's indecision costs the baby's life. She is put on trial and all her beliefs are tested.
2. Renegades – Marissa Meyer
The Renegades are like superheroes, loved by all but the villains they have defeated. Nova has pledged her allegiance to a villain but when she meets a Renegade boy, will he be able to help her?
3. Hunted – Meagan Spooner
Beauty knows the Beast’s forest is in her blood. Only one hunter has ever dared go in that forest and when he loses his money his daughters move to the outskirts of town. The hunter goes missing and one of his daughters, Yeva tries to find her father and the Beast that lurks in the wood.
4. RoseBlood – A.G. Howard
Rune has a talent linked to her music so her mother sends her to French arts school. Here she meets the secretive Thorn. Their friendship develops but Thorn has a choice to make, Rune or the phantom of RoseBlood, the only parental figure he has known.
5. The Perfectionists – Sara Shepard
Five Washington girls realise they have no common ground apart from their shared hatred of one boy. They plan his hypothetical murder but when he turns up dead in the same way they planned, they have to find out who really murdered him.
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
A coming of age novel where Charlie moves into adolescence and discovers a whole new world. One so different to his old one with sex, drugs and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
7. Words on bathroom walls – Julia Walton
Adam is diagnosed with schizophrenia and imagines he sees people who he wouldn’t like to meet. He moves to a new school and starts taking a new drug. This stops him having visions so that he can be normal in front of his class and one girl in particular. Maya…
8. Wreck this journal – Keri Smith
Not really a book to read but great all the same. Each page comes with its own instruction and the challenge of using your artistic nature to fill it.
9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
A classic novel in which Heathcliff, an adopted son of Mr. Earnshaw falls in love with his biological daughter. Thinking his feelings aren't anything she shares, he moves away from the place he has begun to call home. Can true love conquer all?
10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is an orphaned girl who is sent to boarding school after her aunt abuses her. Here she is turned into a young lady and when she graduates she becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. Here she cares for Mr. Rochester’s child, before developing a strange relationship with Rochester himself.
We hope you spend your summer with your nose buried in one of these books, having a great time losing yourself in one of the amazing stories.
