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Books O' the Week
A brand new sci-fi, a story which imagines more than just what it might be like it we were to settle on, to make new cities on the moon, but also what it would be like to live in one. This one is named Pitadel and it's a city where everyone is divided by tiers. Max lives on the upper levels until he's thrown out of an airlock, by his cruel uncle. He's fortunate to meet the Jetsams, street-smart kids on the lower levels who take him under their wing, rescue him. But what next for Max and his new friends?
A plot uncovered. Plans by his family to steal his father's inheritance and an opportunity, if Max and the Jetsams take it, to break all the rules, to pull of a heist of major proportions, to corrupt the adults who claim to know best but are corrupt at worst. It's time to learn how to take on those who think they know best, to learn what being courageous and strong enough to make your own family really means...
Written by David Barker
Published by Tiny Tree Books
Boo is one of the most common words associated with attempting to scare others. It makes a wonderful title for Jeanne Willis' latest picturebook as we explore who said Boo.
You might be wondering how it could be so difficult to work it out... It has something to do with (almost) everything in the book being green! The castle is green, the door is green, the carpets are green and for that matter so is the floor. In fact the entire place is green. Here are a couple of lines from the story, a sample of the wonderful rhyme...
In the green, green castle with the green, green door
And green, green carpets on the green, green floor
And that is because he was green, green, green! It’s home to a little ghost but no-one has ever seen him. Do you know why? Can you guess? Maybe you’ll be the one to spot him on the pages of this hilarious panto-style story. Children will be clamouring to be the one to spot the little ghost and call out ‘He’s behind you’ first. Are they right?
Written by Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Brian Fitzgerald
Published by Scallywag Press
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