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SGS TOP BOOK CHARTS ONE || SARAH CROSSAN Grace and Tippi. Tippi and Grace. Two sisters. Two hearts. Two dreams. Two lives. But one body. Grace and Tippi are conjoined twins, joined at the waist, defying the odds of survival for sixteen years. They share everything, and they are everything to each other. They would never imagine being apart. For them, that would be the real tragedy. SGS TOP BOOK CHARTS BLAME || SIMON MAYO What happens when society wants you banged up in prison for a crime your parents committed? That’s the situation in which Ant finds herself – together with her little brother Mattie and their foster-parents, she’s locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, but wider society wants them to do time for the unpunished ‘heritage’ crimes of their parents. SGS TOP BOOK CHARTS LIES WE TELL OURSELVES || TALLEY In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Boldly realistic and emotionally compelling, Lies We Tell Ourselves is a brave and stunning novel about finding truth amid the lies, and finding your voice even when others are determined to silence it.
RADIO SILENCE BOOK REVIEW Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As. You probably think that they are YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE READ - RADIO SILENCE 5/5 STARS going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl. They don’t. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up and set Zoya Anwar Y10 them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices. I picked this novel because of the numerous things I have heard about both Alice Oseman’s Solitare and Radio Silence. Even though I have criticized many novels for being too ‘mainstream’ whilst trying to cater for a teenage audience, Radio Silence is far from it. The words may be simple and the pacing may be fast (like traditional teenage literature), but Oseman transforms an overused style into something new. By sticking close to being realistic, the words, voice and the dialogue are compelling. I am yet to find one blip, one stone, where it becomes apparent that instead of Frances writing it is Oseman. The very clear aim at young adults doesn’t bother me as much as I know it should. It doesn’t matter that I know the novel may not make much sense come 100 years because this simpleness in voice and words creates something very easy to loose yourself in. Radio silence is about many things; you could look at it from many different angles. On one hand there is the false and true friendship of Frances; there is also the child abuse suffered within Aled’s family; there is the issue of education and being drilled into university; and the idea of YouTubers in the podcast ‘Radio Silence’. The novel is problem heavy, but that isn’t a bad thing. The problems that have been explored aren’t usually in teen realism, even though they are very... real. The characters were relatable too. Frances (the main character) was interesting, her false relationship with her friends striking me as the most insightful and thought-provoking. The author also spends a huge chunk of the book developing all the characters, so much so that the novel doesn’t really have a clear plot, but rather that it is a book of stories woven around its protagonists. I liked that. Personally, I would recomend this book to everyone, but I would be careful as it may seem confusing to those outside its target demographic. STRETFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE 27
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