Yesterday I returned to Alexandra Park School for my second session there as a Book Doctor. Over the course of the day I took appointments with eight students from Year 8, trying to find each one of them a book that would exactly suit that person. Here’s what I ‘prescribed’:
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Trouble by Non Pratt
TWOC by Graham Joyce
True Grit by Charles Portis
Model Under Cover by Carina Axelsson
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Everything is Fine by Cathy Brett
A World Between Us by Lydia Syson
Time and Flood by Stephen Baxter
-and, though not pictured-
The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Thanks again to the staff at APS for another lovely warm welcome, and to the students I met for what were some fascinating discussions. Among these unique individuals the only pattern I could discern was that some said they’d reached a point where they’d had enough of what they’d liked before and were ready to try something new. I hope I helped them find it.