Wealden Times | WT244 | September 2022 | Winter Interiors Supplement inside
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Education<br />
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell follows<br />
the story of Vita, who moves to New York after her<br />
grandfather was robbed of everything he owned. With<br />
the aid of 3 unlikely friends, she concocts a plan to<br />
steal back all he lost. I recommend this book to people<br />
who love mystery and adventure, and a good historic<br />
read. I would describe this book as adventurous,<br />
exciting and suspenseful – I couldn’t wait to<br />
turn the next page!<br />
– Issie Pincus (age 12) at Skippers Hill<br />
Prep School<br />
The Girl of Ink and Stars by<br />
Kiran Hargrave is an amazing<br />
fiction book about an island with<br />
a legend that leads to intriguing<br />
happenings, and from the small<br />
village comes a cartographer’s<br />
daughter who will do anything to<br />
save her friend. I love that I really<br />
feel connected with the characters,<br />
and there are always reasons to turn<br />
the page and keep reading. It is a<br />
book of Friendship, Adventure and<br />
Mystery and a gripping book that<br />
inspires and shapes young minds.<br />
– Molly Burden (age 12) at<br />
Skippers Hill Prep School<br />
istockphoto.com/ Vladimir Kolesnikov & / Svetlana Shamshurina<br />
For older readers I would highly<br />
recommend Fake Law, written by<br />
the Secret Barrister, who is a reallife<br />
junior barrister. They use their<br />
anonymity to give a behind-the-scenes<br />
account of the world of criminal law<br />
and even reveal cases of corruption.<br />
I was interested learning about the<br />
shocking cases where laws have been<br />
manipulated to serve questionable<br />
outcomes and protect those in power<br />
rather than victims of crime.<br />
I would only recommend this book<br />
to older readers due to the content<br />
around very serious criminality.<br />
– Arthur Pavey (age 14)<br />
at Oakwood Park<br />
Grammar School<br />
Find your next favourite read<br />
with recommendations from<br />
students and teachers<br />
I thoroughly enjoy sharing extracts from the<br />
Bill Bryson travel books with our Year 7 and 8. He writes<br />
with such superb detail and his clever, often ridiculous<br />
sense of humour appeals greatly whilst also teaching us<br />
about humour in writing. We study carefully selected<br />
extracts from: “The Life and <strong>Times</strong> of the Thunderbolt<br />
Kid”, a memoir of his childhood spent in Iowa in the<br />
1950s, and “Neither Here Nor There”, a tale of his<br />
backpacking adventures in Europe. Highly entertaining!<br />
– Katrina Atkins Head of English at Marlborough House<br />
A book which I would recommend<br />
is “The Woman In Black” by Susan<br />
Hill. We study this text with our Year<br />
7 students and I have found that<br />
they thoroughly enjoy the wonderful<br />
description and use of imagery, the<br />
brooding atmosphere and the clever<br />
build-up of tension. Without giving<br />
away too much, it also has a stunning<br />
ending. The book provides an accessible<br />
and enjoyable introduction to the<br />
genre of Gothic fiction without<br />
being too terrifying!<br />
– Katrina Atkins Head of English<br />
at Marlborough House<br />
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