ACHUKA Book of the Day 7 Jul 2020
Times Children’s Book of the Week 27 Jun 2020

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big, messy family, one teenager watches as brothers and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding. Enter the Goddens – irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there’s a serpent in this paradise – and the consequences will be devastating.

From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a lyrical and quintessential coming-of-age tale – a summer book that’s as heady, timeless and irresistible as Bonjour Tristesse and I Capture the Castle but as sharp and fresh as Normal People.

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ACHUKA Book Of The Day 23 June 2020
Times Children’s Book of the Week 13 Jun 2020

YA novel set in Zimbabwe telling a story about freedom, inter-generational friendships and forgiving the past.

Tumi desperately wants to make the Zimbabwean national swimming team. Only in swimming does he escape the hatred and exclusion that his albinism brings him. But when he has to stay with his grandmother for a while, the trauma of the terrible thing that happened to him comes rushing back. Can Ambuya reassure Tumi by revealing her own shocking past – a story riddled with racial hatred in war-torn Rhodesia, featuring murder and an illegal love? And what of Tumi’s suspicions that she was involved in his nightmare? 

Rutendo Nomsa Tavengerwei grew up in Zimbabwe before moving to South Africa to study Law. One of her greatest influences in writing remains her father, who tutored Rutendo from the age of nine, teaching her how to write and how to play around with language when telling a story.

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 19 Jun 2o2o
Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 2020

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder.
When Jay Reguero hears of his cousin Jun’s death, everything changes. Although years have passed since they were last in contact, the stories about Jun just don’t fit with the boy Jay knew. Hoping to uncover the truth, Jay travels to Jun’s home in the Philippines – but the shocking realities of life there lead to even more questions. Can Jay find the answers he seeks?

“This powerful and courageous story offers readers a refreshingly emotional depiction of a young man of color with an earnest desire for the truth.” — Kirkus starred review

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Carnegie Medal Winner 2020
ACHUKA Book of the Day Fri 8 Nov 2019 & Thu 18 Jun 2020
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week, 27 Jan 2019
Irish News Book of the Week, 22 Jan 2019

“The beautiful culmination of a series of stories about two brothers facing complex emotional and practical issues and who share a transcendental love of nature. And it is written by one of our best authors for young people; someone who knows how to get inside their minds and communicate the strength and depth of the way they feel about their lives. I’ll miss Nicky and Kenny more than I can say.” The Bookbag

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 10 Jun 2020
Shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2020

Seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents. With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the camp, Layla begins her fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp’s Director and his guards.

Set in a horrifying ‘fifteen minutes in the future’ United States, the novel is an emotional roller-coaster. 

‘[A] magnetic novel… this is a story that seems uncomfortably prescient in these uncertain times, but it’s also one of hope and resistance. Author Ahmed is proving herself to be a YA gem.’ – Stylist

‘Very timely… A rallying call against the complicity of silence on modern racism.’ – Independent

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