Year 8 Reading CompetitionHere is a list of 10 novels that are new or popular for your age group and you get to choose one! Throughout the year, aim to read as many novels as possible. When you have a copy of a novel from this list, show it to one of the following members of staff: your English teacher, your form tutor or the librarian. They will sign over the image of the book you have chosen. All that you are then required to do is read the novel and write a 100 word (maximum) review.

If you read:

3 novels you will win the Bronze Reading Award+ Reading Merit

4 novels you will win the Silver Reading Award+ house points + Reading Merit

8 novels you will win the Gold Reading Award+ house points + Reading Merit

10 novels you will win the Platinum Reading Award+ house points + a prize + a choice of novel

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

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Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen

We are all made of molecule by Susan Nielsen

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The

Maze Runner by James Dashner

My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons

The Last Wild by Piers Torday

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

A book of your choice.

Logging your reviews:

Click on ‘Boodle’ on the top right hand-side of the school’s website or the ‘Boodle’ icon when in school.

Click on the ‘Library’ icon and log in using your username and password.

Click on the above link and this will open a book review form. Add your comments!

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Proof of the power one teen can have in fighting for what’s right. Malala was only ten when the Taliban took control of her Pakistani region. They said music was a crime. They banned women from the market. They said girls couldn’t go to school. But Malala was raised to speak up for her beliefs. So she blogged and spoke about girls’ rights to education. Then, in a shocking revenge attack, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman.

In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either.

'I haven't read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games ... an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read' Guardian Children's website. (Guardian Children's website)

Faith has a thirst for science and secrets that the rigid confines of her class cannot supress. And so it is that she discovers her disgraced father's journals, filled with the scribbled notes and theories of a man driven close to madness. Tales of a strange tree which, when told a lie, will uncover a truth: the greater the lie, the greater the truth revealed to the liar. Faith's search for the tree leads her into great danger - for where lies seduce, truths shatter ...

The Lie Tree is brilliant: dark, thrilling, utterly original. Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now. (Patrick Ness)