The last week of school looms. I can’t believe the year has zoomed past so quickly – must be the holidays which keeps that pace going. It has felt very, very busy; not hectic but certainly much more active than my final days at Reading Recovery. I’m so glad to have made the change when I did.
So the highlights of my reading this year. Well, I’ve tried to read quite a few from the YA fiction at school. What’s been memorable? Probably one of the first books I read- Meg Rossof’s ‘How I live now’ made a big impact. Such a direct voice of the main character; the setting in a world where teenagers were ‘doing it for themselves’ with the added complexity of a time which seemed crossed between the second world war and now. A novel about growing up and facing lifethreatening challenges while also developing into a touching love story.
‘Jinx’ by Margaret Wild was another interesting YA read. This time it was the text type that made it memorable – a verse novel which although it was brief actually told quite a complex and lengthy story. A girl who believes she is dangerous to love because boyfriends and others she loves die.
