BOOK OF THE WEEK
15 April 2024
Hello Bookworms!
I hope you were able to fit in lots of reading over the Easter holiday! Here are two more super books to read and if you’d like some more inspiration, do check out our Reading List.
Tiger (The Five Ancestors) by Jeff Stone
Before he dies the grandmaster instructs his five youngest pupils to search out the secrets of their past. Fu doesn’t know where to start, until he hears a tiger roar with pain, which is when instinct takes over.
Twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long don’t know who their parents were. Raised from infancy by their grandmaster, they think of their temple as their home and their fellow warrior monks—their “temple brothers”—as their family. Then one terrible night, the temple is destroyed. Fu and his brothers are the only survivors.
Fu returns to the burning temple grounds alone and takes a set of secret Dragon Scrolls, not realising the chain of events he is unleashing. Charged by their grandmaster to uncover the secrets of their past, the five flee into the countryside and go their separate ways.
Book #1 follows Fu as he struggles to find out more and prove himself in the process.
Book 1 of 7: the Five Ancestors
Grandpa Frank’s Great Big Bucket List by Jenny Pearson
Find out what happens when Frank inherits half a million pounds and a grumpy grandpa who he didn’t know he had.
When Frank John Davenport inherits piles of money from a grandma he didn’t know he had, things take an unexpected turn… Because the money comes with STRICT instructions…and a NEW grandpa.
Frank quickly compiles a list of all the ways he can spend the money and look after his grumpy grandpa. Money may buy hot-air balloon rides, monster-truck lessons and epic parkour experiences, but can Frank discover that happiness is, in fact, priceless?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD, WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD, LAUGH OUT LOUD BOOK AWARD and the BRANFORD BOASE AWARD
“Breaks records for funny and touching storytelling.” David Baddiel
“As funny and tender as it could ever be.” Frank Cottrell-Boyce
“This rollicking adventure is also a tender portrait of dysfunctional families and the importance of connecting through the generations… Wonderfully drawn characters and fizzing, funny energy collide in this joy of a book.” Daily Mail
“Heart-warming and genuinely funny.” The Times