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Trying and failing to ignore this colossal apostrophe fail at Ladybird. Now blaming them for my generation’s punctuation problems.And now I’m reading this and it’s just stunning. Debut MG by Katya Balen and cover by @laura.f.carlin Out with @bloomsburypublishing in September. Thanks for the proof.Finally got round to reading this beauty. Fabulous take on a fairy tale. Clever and dark and heartbreaking. @usborne_booksAt the illegible even to me frantic planning stage. #amwritingGCSE breakfastBloonTwitter
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Tag Archives: YA
The Carnegie Feeling
I have never been one of life’s winners when it comes to sport, barely even scraping third in the 1979 St Mary’s Primary sports day yoghurt-pot-and-umbrella race (actual race, involving running wildly around the field with an empty Ski pot … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony McGowan, Atom Books, Carnegie Medal, Everybody Hurts, Hachette, Joanna Nadin, Leeds, Little Brown, love, teen romance, YA
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The making of a mixtape…
Rob has it right in High Fidelity: “The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Teen
Tagged Anthony McGowan, Elvis, Everybody Hurts, Leeds, mix CD, Mountain Goats, romance, The National, YA
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When John Hughes closes a door…
There’s a line in Paul Murray’s high school epic Skippy Dies that, on first reading, is less a lightbulb moment and more like being hit over the head with a giant hammer of the blindingly obvious, and, on subsequent examination, … Continue reading
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Tagged Joanna Nadin, John Hughes, Molly Ringwald, Skippy Dies, teen, YA
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