Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell

Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.

Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor.

Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

Good Reads

Figgy in the world – Tamsin Janu

Figgy has two problems. One is her name. Nobody in Ghana has that name. The other is that her grandmother is ill and needs special medicine. Figgy can’t do much about her name, but she can do something for Grandma Ama. She will go to America and bring back the medicine, and Kwame, her special goat, will go with her. Out in the wide world she will meet some bad people, but she will also find good friends.

Good Reads

Are we there yet? Alison Lester

Eight-year-old Grace,
her parents, and her two brothers embark on a six-month-long journey to tour their country, Australia.
Driving around the perimeter of the continent
(except when they plunge into the Outback to visit places such as Alice Springs and Uluru)
they drive, swim, hike, enjoy zoos, museums, and tourist sites;
observe the changing landscape; play Monopoly on rainy days; and visit relatives.
Readers can refer to small maps throughout the book as they chart the family’s progress.

Amazon
weheartbooks

The cat in the hat – Dr Seuss

It’s a rainy day and Dick and Sally can’t find anything to do . . . until the Cat in the Hat unexpectedly appears and turns their dreary afternoon into a fun-filled extravaganza!

Seussville

Baker Taylor

Paper planes (movie)