What Miss T Read

Eleven-year-old Joe can't remember a life outside of his hospital room, with its beeping machines and view of London's rooftops. His condition means he's not allowed outside, not even for a moment, and his few visitors risk bringing life-threatening germs inside his 'bubble'. But then someone new enters his world and changes it for ever. I think I was perhaps more excited than my class when we visited the library van before Easter and I nabbed a copy of Bubble Boy. I've been trying to reserve a class set of them from our library, but every time I narrowly miss out to another school - showing just how popular this book is! Bubble Boy follows the life of eleven-year-old Joe. He has a life threatening condition which means germs are his worst enemy and because of this he has spent his whole life inside a hospital room. For Joe the hospital staff have become his second family and he relies on the daily visits from nurse Greg and his older sister, Bet

Switzerland, 1816. On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn- more chilling than any tale. Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger, a girl covered in the most unusual scars. She claims to be looking for her sister, supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley. Someone else has followed her here too, she says. And the girl is terrified. I am a big Emma Carroll fan having read quite a few of her books, and they are perfect examples of making history come alive in fiction for children. Strange Star landed in my classroom after a trip to the library van and on the recommendation of an avid reader in my class I picked it up and devoured it.  Strange Star was inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, something that I didn't realise until reading the first chapter and then I had to do