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Olivia Plunket recommends Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now : "This is about children having to become adults, when war hits England. The reason I chose this and why I like it, is because it's such an extraordinary thing, an 8 year-old boy having to become a man. It is about how war pulls you apart, and takes things away from you, including childhood. This family has to find a way through war without parents, or adults, and that is what is unique about it."
Steffan Davies is reading Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Pullman's 62nd birthday was two days ago: see the excellent His Dark Materials website here. Steffan writes : "This novel is the first book in the trilogy. It is about a young girl's adventure with a crazy brother, a
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Aljoscha von Bismarck is reading Louis Sachar's Holes : "I chose this book because I like the way it's written. I haven't read many
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Meanwhile, in the weekly Library update on the College website, Tom McConville writes about the Booker Prize, and the winner The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, here.
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