Spring 2024, first half term

Escape Room

Christopher Edge
Escape Room by Christopher Edge book cover.

When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game – the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they have been chosen to save the world and they must work together to find the Answer. But as he locks them inside the first room, they quickly realise this is no ordinary game.
 

For this half term, we will be looking at Escape Room by Christopher Edge.

Suitable for readers aged 9+

A fun game of puzzle-solving and ingenuity becomes a thrilling fantastical adventure with the fate of the world at stake in Escape Room, our next read at Read It! Children’s Book Club. 

9 January 2024, 3:30pm
16 January 2024, 3:30pm
23 January 2024, 3:30pm
30 January 2024, 3:30pm
6 February 2024, 3:30pm

Autumn 2023, second half term

Malamander

Thomas Taylor
Malamander book cover

Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep…

For this half term we will be looking at Malamander by Thomas Taylor.

Suitable for readers aged 9+

Malamander will be the very first book to be shared at Read It! Children’s Book Club and what a fantastic choice it is! Prepare to transport yourself from Shoreham-by-Sea to the mysterious Eerie-on Sea in this incredible, best-selling story from Sussex-based author, Thomas Taylor.

31 October 2023, 3:30pm
7 November 2023, 3:30pm
14 November 2023, 3:30pm
21 November 2023, 3:30pm
28 November 2023, 3:30pm
5 December 2023, 3:30pm