Key Stage 5 – Recommended Reading List
Thunder
Citra’s life is threatened as conflict within the scythes grow, and the Thunderhead is made aware of a world-changing discovery.
Professional scythes control death. The Thunderhead controls everything else. It’s a perfect system. Until is isn’t.
It’s been a year since Rowan went off-grid. Hunted by the Scythedom, he has become an urban legend, a vigilante sniffing out corrupt scythes. Citra, meanwhile, is forging her path as Scythe Anastasia, gleaning with compassion. However, conflict amongst the scythes is growing, and when Citra’s life is threatened, it becomes clear that there is a truly terrifying plot afoot.
The Thunderhead observes everything, and it does not like what it sees. Will it intervene? Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel?
This is the sequel to Scythe.
Salt to the Sea
Set during the end of World War 2, a group of refugees escape Germany by ship
It’s early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land.
Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stories.
This novel is based on a true story from the Second World War. When the German ship the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in port in early 1945 it had over 9000 civilian refugees, including children, on board. Nearly all were drowned.
NOTE: Carnegie Medal Winner 2017
Awards
- Winner – Carnegie Medal 2017
- Shortlisted – Carnegie Medal 2017
- Longlisted – Carnegie Medal 2017
I am Thunder
Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem is passionate about writing and dreams of becoming a novelist. There’s just one problem – her super-controlling parents have already planned her life out for her: Step 1) Get educated Step 2) Qualify as a doctor Step 3) Marry a cousin from Pakistan. Oh, and boyfriends are totally haram. No one is more surprised than humble Muzna when high school hottie, Arif Malik, takes an interest in her.
But Arif and his brother are angry at the West for demonizing Islam and hiding a terrible secret. As Arif begins to lead Muzna down a dark path, she faces a terrible choice: keep quiet and betray her beliefs, or speak up and betray her heart?
I Am Thunder is the debut novel from stunning YA voice, Muhammad Khan, which questions how far you’ll go to stand up for what you believe.
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