Southwark Schools’ Book Award 2009 A Reading Project for Year 6 and 7

What is the ‘Southwark Schools’ Book Award’? Reading project for Year 6 and Year 7 Set up in 2007 Exclusively for pupils from the Southwark area of London

Reading project for Year 6 and Year 7

Set up in 2007

Exclusively for pupils from the Southwark area of London

What do you have to do? Read the shortlisted books Discuss the books with other year 6 and 7 students Write reviews of the books. These will be published on the website! Comment on the books using Voicethread on the website Vote for your favourite books on the website Celebrate the winning books!

Read the shortlisted books

Discuss the books with other year 6 and 7 students

Write reviews of the books. These will be published on the website!

Comment on the books using Voicethread on the website

Vote for your favourite books on the website

Celebrate the winning books!

Why do we take part? To link secondary schools and primaries To promote enjoyment in reading To extend reading choices

To link secondary schools and primaries

To promote enjoyment in reading

To extend reading choices

Which schools are involved? There are 25 primary and secondary schools taking part this year including yours!

There are 25 primary and secondary schools taking part this year including yours!

The Books!!

Alligator by Theresa Breslin Jono didn't mean to buy an alligator. It just sort of happened. And now his mum's going to kill him... if the alligator doesn't get there first! A hilarious comedy.

Jono didn't mean to buy an alligator. It just sort of happened.

And now his mum's going to kill him... if the alligator doesn't get there first!

A hilarious comedy.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney An exciting new series begins. Greg Heffley is thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

An exciting new series begins. Greg Heffley is thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

The hazards of growing up are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee Cash is the puppy nobody wants - a pit-bull - a throwaway dog. A shivering wet bundle, Cash arrives in the life of twelve-year-old Mackenzie. And from that moment boy and dog share a love neither has ever known before. But when Cash is kicked out by Mackenzie's father, she finds herself lost and alone in a cruel world. Will she ever find her boy again?

Cash is the puppy nobody wants - a pit-bull - a throwaway dog.

A shivering wet bundle, Cash arrives in the life of twelve-year-old Mackenzie. And from that moment boy and dog share a love neither has ever known before.

But when Cash is kicked out by Mackenzie's father, she finds herself lost and alone in a cruel world.

Will she ever find her boy again?

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he’s the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster – or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space. Is Liam the best boy for the job? Sometimes being big isn’t all about being a grown-up.

Liam is too big for his boots. And his football strip. And his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he’s the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster – or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche.

Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.

Is Liam the best boy for the job? Sometimes being big isn’t all about being a grown-up.

The Shade of Hettie Daynes by R. Swindells If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost… That’s what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards. Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago. If so, what does she want ? And why is she appearing now? Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out! A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.

If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost…

That’s what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really can see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.

Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.

If so, what does she want ? And why is she appearing now? Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!

A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.

The Amazing Mind of Alice Makin by Alan Shea Twelve-year old Alice is growing up in a grey world of old bombsites, in post war London. It’s a tough life made harder by her difficult step-dad. Alice’s escape is her imagination, which always brightens her day. But when a new boy called Reggie starts school, her mind begins playing tricks on her. She seems oddly drawn to him and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting and colourful place. A place where imagination appears to becomes real: where a bubble-gum machine can suddenly explode into a thousand coloured balls, a handful of fireworks become the greatest show ever, and a row on the lake becomes a terrifying adventure.

Twelve-year old Alice is growing up in a grey world of old bombsites, in post war London. It’s a tough life made harder by her difficult step-dad.

Alice’s escape is her imagination, which always brightens her day. But when a new boy called Reggie starts school, her mind begins playing tricks on her. She seems oddly drawn to him and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting and colourful place.

A place where imagination appears to becomes real: where a bubble-gum machine can suddenly explode into a thousand coloured balls, a handful of fireworks become the greatest show ever, and a row on the lake becomes a terrifying adventure.

The Project Copies of books available in every participating school for nominated groups to… Borrow, read, discuss and review Pupils post reviews, comments and votes on website All pupils and teachers will meet for the final events, during the week of 29 th June, to celebrate the winning book

Copies of books available in every participating school for nominated groups to…

Borrow, read, discuss and review

Pupils post reviews, comments and votes on website

All pupils and teachers will meet for the final events, during the week of 29 th June, to celebrate the winning book

Visit the website to find out more… www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk

www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk