Recommended Reads
This is a list of books that have been highly recommended for or have featured on the Shropshire Bookfest Book Award shortlists since the project began in 2010. This list also lists books by authors who have been programmed onto the Schools’ Week programmes that have supported their creative writing workshops in primary schools across Shropshire.
‘Geek Inc.’ by Mark Griffiths
About the book: Somewhere in the small, dull town of Blue Hills, the impossible is happening. Inanimate...
‘The Bomber Dog’ by Megan Rix (WINNER – Book Award 2014)
About the book: GREY is just a puppy when he arrives at the War Dog Training school....
‘I am Still Not a Loser’ by Jim Smith
About the book: You know when someone’s horrible to you in a dream and you wake up...
‘Skull in the Wood’ by Sandra Greaves
About the book: Desperate to get away from his mum and her boyfriend, Paul, ‘the four-eyed pillock’,...
‘Secrets, Lies & Locker 62’ by Lil Chase
About the book: Secrets have a special home at Mount Selwyn High. For years, students have posted...
‘The Last Wild’ by Piers Torday
About the book: In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like...
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