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YEAR 8

HOME LEARNING

BOOKLET

SUMMER 2014

YOUR HOME LEARNING: SUMMER

Student at the Aylesbury Vale Academy will be challenged at home as well as in school to

ensure that they reach their potential. Year 8 students nationally are required to complete

between 45 minute and 90 minutes of homework every night to ensure that they make

the necessary progress.

This booklet contains your home learning tasks for the Spring Term. It provides a clear

outline of the task set, guidance of when to start it, the hand in date and the week it

should be returned to you. The tasks are varied and have an emphasis on extended study

and independent research. Teachers may set other pieces of homework from time to

time.

CORE SUBJECTS (English, Maths, Science)

Homework for English and Maths will be set on a weekly basis and recorded in the

student planner. Homework for Science will be set every two weeks, be recorded in

student planners and will be available to download from the VLE.

DT, Religious Studies and History will provide homework on a fortnightly basis details of

which can be found on the VLE.

MANAGING YOUR TIME

Each subject has set an Extended Home Learning Task that should take between three to

four hours to complete over a three week period.

We want you to become self-managers. A good self-manager can organise their time,

prioritise tasks and work to deadlines (all essential life skills). To help with this we’ve

staggered the tasks so you only have to hand in a maximum of two at any one time. The

timetable below shows exactly when each Home Learning task is to be undertaken.

YEAR 8 SUMMER

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GEOGRAPHY M H M

DRAMA H M

PHYSICAL EDUCATION H H

SPANISH H M H

MUSIC H M

KEY Work on your Home Learning Project during these weeks.

H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you have

with them this week.

M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be marked and Returned during this

week.

AYLESBURY VALE ACADEMY YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING BOOKLET SUMMER

ART

Observational Drawing- Architecture

National Curriculum Level: 3-7

By the end of this task you will have:

Created an observational study of architecture

Illustrated an effective use of tone and form

Looked at shape and detail through accurate recordings and proportions

By the end of this task you will know:

-How to look at perspective and shape

-Use tone and form within an observational drawing

How to complete this task:

Choose a building or a detailed section of architecture such as, windows of a cathedral or

archways. On A4 paper scale your drawing. Create an accurate outline first then develop the

details, patterns, shapes. Using a range of pencil tone, illustrate the light and dark areas to create

a three-dimensional form.

Keywords and phrases you could use in your work:

Observation Detail Proportion Range Architecture

Scale Tone Enlarge Building Form

Exceptional Home Learning may include:

Working from direct observation

Creating texture and tone effectively

Accurate scale and perspective of shape

Where to find help:

Search engines to research possible images

How parents/guardians can help:

helping to choose a suitable image to study


GEOGRAPHY

Tectonics



Researched a tectonic hazard of your choice

Explained what processes are taking place

Examined the impact these have on a particular place

Predicted what might happen in the future


Choose a tectonic hazard (either earthquakes or volcanoes)

Explain clearly what the hazard is that you have chosen, making sure that

you cover the causes of it as well as the effects/impacts/problems it causes

You should also include specific case studies (examples of places where it

has happened

Research potential solutions to any problems you identify and describe

ways in which your chosen issue can be improved/made better

Make sure that the solutions you explain are sustainable and that you

explain how they are sustainable


Physical

Human Earthquake Social Economic

Impact Volcano Impact Environmental Sustainable


Work on more than one country (perhaps comparing an LEDC to an MEDC)

or more than one hazard


Help your child research either earthquakes or volcanoes to gain initial

ideas about what to write about

Help your child with their time management so they don’t leave all their

work until the last minute

YEAR 8

Home learning in History

1 Interpretations of Charles the second

2 Anglo Irish relations, 1603-1689

3 The Act of Union, 1707

4 In what ways had Britain changed between 1603 and 1750? ASSESSMENT

5-7 First long term research topic:

Were Native Americans savages and uncivilised before 1776? ASSESSMENT

8 -10 Second long term research topic

Why were there so many `Indian Wars` after 1840? ASSESSMENT

Year 8 RS Homework – reading tasks

Each week H/W will be set in class from the

topics below:

1) How symbols convey ideas, beliefs and

feelings

2) How stories are used to express truth

3) Interpret visual symbols and express your

own ideas

4) Examine the ways in which religious art is

symbolic

5) Examine the ways in which symbolic

actions are used in religion

6) Analyse how different symbols combine to

express belief

7) Assessment


Year 8 drama


Physical theatre


Identified ‘what is physical theatre?’


Some of the skills used to create a physical theatre performance

How to complete this task

Produce a side of A4 extended writing, researching physical theatre. Include:-

Historical influences

Examples of groups/ company’s

What is a stimulus?


Examples of performance possibility’s in class, Stimulus ideas.

Where to find help:

http://www.dramaworks.co.uk/exploringphysicaltheatre.html


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Playing by the Rules



Researched the rules of your favourite sport

Created an explanation of the pitch/court markings of your favourite sport


The rules and pitch sizes of your favourite sport


You are to create a booklet with a front cover saying what the sport is (with a picture). Inside the

booklet you will need to list the rules (think of duration of play, fouls, restarts, extra-time, number

of players) and then include a diagram of the pitch/court and identify the markings. Think of this

as a guide for someone who does not know the sport.


Duration Foul Play Player Numbers


A definition of each of the keywords

Examples of the rules being applied

Where to find help:

www.wikipedia.com www.thefa.com www.lta.com www.badmintonengland.com

www.englandhockey.co.uk www.rfu.com www.uka.co.uk


Is the information clear and easy to read?

Is the diagram marked out appropriately

http://www.wikipedia.com/

http://www.thefa.com/

http://www.lta.com/

http://www.badmintonengland.com/

http://www.englandhockey.co.uk/

http://www.rfu.com/

http://www.uka.co.uk/


SPANISH Year 8

La comida



Consolidated your work on your food and drink and use all three tenses together (past/

present/ future)


How to recognise the past, present and future tense and talk confidently about food and

drink


Complete each of the worksheets which follow. You do not need to complete them all at

once. Try to complete them weekly as we cover each section in lessons.


¿Qué desayunas/ meriendas/ cenas?

(What do you eat for breakfast/ lunch/

dinner)

Desayuno/ Meriendo/ Ceno…

(For breakfast I eat/ For luch I eat/ For

dinner I eat…)

generalmente/ normalmente

(generally/ normally)

¿Que quieres? (What would you

like?)

un kilo de/ dos kilos de/ medio kilo de… (a kilo of/ 2 kilos of/

half a kilo of…)

De primer plato/ De Segundo plato/ De

postra (As a starter/ main/ dessert…)

El fin de semana pasado… (Last

weekend…)

Comí/ Bebí… (I ate/ drank…)

Me gusta comer/ beber… (I like to

eat/ drink)

Nunca como/ bebo… (I never

eat/ drink…)


Designing your own menu for a restaurant

Using all three tenses successfully

Where to find help:

www.wordreference.com

www.atantot.co.uk (username: aylesburyvale password: 6222)

How parents/guardians can help :

Help your child to use an online or paper dictionary.

Encourage them to use dictionaries to look up individual words and avoid online

translators.

http://www.atantot.co.uk/


La comida Complete the following worksheets to consolidate your work on holidays.

1. ¿Qué desayunas?

What do you eat for breakfast?

2. En el mercado

In the market

3. En el restaurante

In the restaurant

4. Una cena especial

A special dinner

5. ¿Qué te gusta comer?

What do you like to eat?

6. ¡Extra! 1

A healthy diet

7. ¡Extra! 2

Spanish specialities

You will find all the vocabulary you need is at the back of this section.

Remember to use it if you get stuck.

Online dictionary: www.wordreference.com

Word of warning! Do not be tempted to use an online translator such as

Google Translate. It will produce poor quality and often entirely incorrect

work. You can do better yourself!

http://www.wordreference.com/


MUSIC

Indian Music



Produced a presentation on the 3 main parts that make up Indian Music

and Identified with the main instruments used in Indian Music


The difference between a Raga, Tala, and drone

What the main instruments are in Indian Music and their roles and

characteristics


Using a method of your choice- Powerpoint/word/publisher/Handwritten you are

to provide information/definitions of the 3 main parts of Indian Music.

Raga/Tala/Drone. You are then to find pictures of and describe the following

instruments. Sitar, Tabla, Tambura and Sarod


An extended piece of writing about Indian music using the key

terminology above as part of the research.

A piece of extension work about Bhangra music

Where to find help:

Your Teacher

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/music/.

SCIENCE

Science home work will be set once every two weeks and is available on The Aylesbury Vale

Academy VLE. Copies are also included in this home learning booklet. Students will use their

personalized login and password to access the homework from the VLE.

How to complete homework:

Students can answer the questions in a word document and print it or answer the questions on

lined paper. Students working from the homework booklet can write in the booklet. All homework

will be marked according to the AVA marking policy.

Homework exercises are differentiated according to ability/ learning outcomes.

KEY Work on your Home Learning Project during these weeks.

H: Hand in your Home Learning Project to your teacher during the lesson you have

with them this week.

M: Your Home Learning Project will normally be

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9J gravity and space (8a+b1) &

(8a+b3)

8H explaining the earth (8a+b2)

H M

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9G Cleaning up (8a+b2)

9F Sculpture park (8a+b1) & (8a+b3)

H H M

9G Cleaning up (8a+b1 & 8a+b3)

9F Sculpture park (8a+b2)

H M

M

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9H Flying materials(8a+b2)

(8a+b1 & 8a+b3)

H H M

9D Crime scene investigation

(8a+b2) (8a +b1) & (8a +b3)

H

Where to find help:

https://www.samlearning.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/


Practise spelling the keywords with your child.

Help your child research definitions for the keywords.

https://www.samlearning.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/

9C: Marking Grid plants

Task objective Met?

1 Picture dictionary Know what the key words for this topic

mean

2. List of objects made

from plants – where do

they come from?

Know what we use plants for

3. Leaflet to say why

organic farming is good

Ideas about organic farming and arguments

for buying organic food

4/5/6

poster/cartoon/newspaper

about plants

Summarising your knowledge of plants and

how/why they photosynthesise to gain

energy for growth and repair.

Target :

Topic Homework –

9C: PLANTS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS (ON THE FARM)

You MUST do the first 3 tasks, and then CHOOSE one from task 4,5 and 6.

Task 1:

Make a ‘Picture Dictionary’ of the key words for the topic (given below). You should have simple, easy to

understand definitions for each word.

Photosynthesis Starch Iodine

Chloroplast Palisade cell Light

Water Sun Chlorophyll

Glucose Oxygen Biomass

Root hair cell Respiration Nitrogen

Potassium Phosphorus pesticide

Fertiliser Minerals Fertiliser

Task 2:

Make a list of everything in your house you can find that comes from PLANTS! (look at food, medicine,

furniture, etc.). You could include pictures if you were very good! Can you find out WHERE the plants

come from?

Task 3: Design a leaflet for a supermarket chain showing why ORGANIC farming is good. What problems

can artificial fertilisers and pesticides cause?

Task 4 Or Task 5 Or Task 6

Draw a poster to show what

photosynthesis is and where it

happens in a plant

Make a Cartoon strip to show

the life of a plant…

…include the jobs of the leaf,

root, stem and flower

Write a newspaper or magazine

article Called ‘The Science of

Plants’. Include pictures and

diagrams and try to explain the

main things you have learnt in this

unit.

9J topic homework – gravity and space

Task 1:

9G:

The cards show the different stages in the formation of acid rain and some of its effects.

1 Cut out the cards and arrange them on a piece of paper to form a flow chart. The shape of your flow

chart should be something like this:

2 Show your flow chart to your teacher and then stick the cards down.

3 Draw lines to join the cards.

A

Fish die in acidic lakes.

B

Acidic gases dissolve in moisture in the air.

C

Acid rain reacts with chemicals in the soil to produce poisonous compounds.

D

Nitrogen oxides are produced by car engines.

9Gb(1) Acid rain

?

• recall some of the causes and effects of acid rain.

E

The dissolved gases make rain more acidic.

F

Acid rain falls onto the land and runs into lakes and rivers.

G

Plants become unhealthy.

H

Acid rain speeds up the weathering of rocks and corrosion of metals.

I

Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide.

J

Acid rain washes some mineral salts out of the soil.

The diagram shows a food web for a lake. The only organisms that do not live completely in the

water are the herons, the frogs and the ducks.

The lake becomes more acidic because of acid rain. This harms most of the organisms that live in the

water, including the microbes that make dead organisms decay. It does not directly harm the herons,

frogs and ducks.

1 a Which gases in the air cause acid rain?

___________________________________________________________________________

b Describe two ways in which the amounts of these gases in the air can be reduced.

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

2 a Why doesn’t the acid lake affect the ducks directly?

___________________________________________________________________________

9Gb(6) Pollution and food webs 1

b After a year the population of ducks living on the lake has gone down. Explain why this has

happened.

___________________________________________________________________________

3 The lake is not acidic enough to harm the perch directly. Why will the numbers of perch go down?

____________________________________________________________________________

4 Give two reasons why the population of snails in the lake would get smaller.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

5 After a year there are more dead organisms on the lake bed that have not decayed. Give two reasons

for this.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

• recall the causes of acid rain and how acid rain can be reduced

• describe some of the effects of acid rain on food webs.

The table gives information about three metals that can be used for sculptures or construction.

Look at the data and then answer the questions.

1 Which metal:

a is the most expensive? _______________________

b would be easiest to melt? _______________________

c is the most lightweight? _______________________

2 Imagine you were choosing a metal for a sculpture.

a Suggest which two properties might be most useful in helping you decide

which was the best metal to use. ______________________________,

______________________________

b Choose one of these properties and explain why it is useful. _______________________

c Suggest which property would be no use at all for helping you decide. __________________

d Explain your answer. ________________________________________________________

3 For each question, put a tick in the correct column to say whether the question can be answered by

doing scientific experiments.

Question This is a scientific question

This is not a scientific question

a Which metal is strongest?

b Which metal is most expensive?

c Which metal is most attractive?

Metal

Property aluminium copper iron

cost medium most expensive cheapest

conduction of electricity good good good

density (how heavy it is for its volume?)

low high high

melting point medium high high high

colour pale grey orange/brown grey

reaction in the atmosphere very little because a protective coating forms on the surface

slowly gets a black or green coating when it reacts

rusts in damp air unless it is painted or protected in some other way

9Fa(6) Which metal is best? 1

Name _________________________________________ Class _______________ Date _________________

d Which metal is best to use for a sculpture?

e Which metal corrodes quickest in the atmosphere?

• obtain relevant information from a table • use information to make comparisons

• identify questions that science cannot answer.

1 Bakelite™ was the first widely used synthetic polymer. It was used for many different things.

Match up the uses of Bakelite™ with the property that is important for that use.

2 Kevlar® is a polymer that is used in bullet-proof vests. Match up the properties of Kevlar® fibres with the

reasons why that property is useful.

3 Match up these sentence halves to show how composite materials work.

9Hb(1) Fantastic fibres

Name _________________________________________ Class _______________ Date _________________

electrical switches

cups

propeller

picnic plates

saucepan handles

heat insulator

stiff and strong

electrical insulator

tough, not brittle

waterproof and stiff

very strong

flexible

light

The fibres …

The matrix …

can be woven into cloth

the bullet-proof vest is light enough to wear

does not break if hit by a bullet

… keeps the material the right

shape and resists squashing forces.

… are very strong and resist pulling

forces on the material.

• match up the properties of a material with its uses

• recall what composite materials are.

9L – ‘Dam it’ topic homework

All the photographs in this worksheet are showing effects that can be explained using ideas about

particles and air pressure.

Write a short paragraph for each photo to explain what is happening. You can also add labels to

the photos if wish, or add your own diagrams.

1a) Why does a balloon get bigger if you blow into it?

What happens if you put too much air in?

b) You cannot ‘pull' water, so how can you drink through a straw?

c) The backing of this hook is made of flexible plastic. It has been pressed against the wall, not

stuck on with glue.

How does it stay on the wall?

2. label these diagrams with the correct words

a) This hammer is being used to pull out a nail.

9Lb

b) This woman is using a spade as a lever.

effort force on nail pivot

c). The bottle opener is being used to take the lid of a bottle.

d) This machine is being used to punch holes in paper.

effort force on paper pivot

effort force on top pivot

effort force on soil pivot

3. copy this paragraph into your books and fill in the gaps: use the words in the box to help you:

The __________________ effect of a force is called a moment.

The __________________ is bigger if:

the force is __________________

the force is __________________ the pivot.

You can __________________ a moment using this formula:

moment = __________________ × distance from __________________

The __________________ for moments are newton metres (_________________).

An object is __________________ when the clockwise and anticlockwise moments are

_________________.

4. Imagine he government wanted to build a dam in Chalfont St Peter! What opinion would you

have on this?

These people have different opinions about building dams.

What do you think about their opinions?

balanced bigger calculate closer to different force further from

moment N m N/m pivot smaller the same turning unit

9Ld Dam opinions

of 2

I know big cities need water supplies, but

why should people in the countryside

have to suffer all the inconvenience of a

dam being built just so city dwellers can

waste water in dishwashers and watering

their gardens?

It is really bad for those people who will

have to move away from their homes

Studies have shown that being in natural

surroundings, such as the countryside, is beneficial to

people's health and well-being. This reservoir will

cover a huge area that people currently use for

enjoying the countryside.

We've GOT to use renewable resources for

generating electricity, and a hydroelectric

scheme will help with this. The possible

environmental damage to the area that will

be flooded is not important compared to the

damage that will happen to ALL

environments if climate change is as bad as

of 2

Can you imagine the amount of upheaval

caused by all those construction trucks

going through our countryside?

I've always wanted to run a sailing school

– the new reservoir will let me do this

locally! Great idea!

A lot of workers would come to the area

and stay for years. It could be really good

for my restaurant business – lots of extra

trade!

KEY STAGE 3

SUGGESTED

READING LIST

SUMMER 2014

Key Stage 3

English Department

Suggested Reading List

Extensive reading is the key to improving all aspects of your English work, and it

benefit you in other curriculum areas too. More importantly, you may be inspired,

able to relax and your imagination will flourish…

Below is a list of book, organised into sections with very brief comments about

them. This list is just a starting point – there is a wealth of good books being

published all the time. We have tried to select a variety of books so that you will

be able to find a book that you will really enjoy. You will be able to find many of

these in the library, but you may have to search a little further afield for some.

Recommend books you your friends and swap books you have enjoyed with each

other. When you have read a book you have enjoyed, look for other titles by the

same author.

Adventure

Exodus Julie Bertanga A quest for survival and a search for a new world

Hacker Malorie Blackman A computer hacking adventure

Storm Catchers Tim Bowler Kidnap and Mystery

Millions Frank Cottrell Boyce Adventure and dealing with grief

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon A murder mystery like no other

Silverfin Charlie Higson James Bond is back, aged 13. The original superspy

Scorpia Anthony Horowitz The M16 adventure spy series

Journey to the River Sea

Eva Ibbotson An adventure along the Amazon

Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson A family mystery

Thunder and Lightnings

Jan Mark An adventure mystery – all about planes.

Underworld Catherine Macphail A school trip that goes wrong…

Trash Andy Mulligan Three friends find something extraordinary in the trash. From that moment on they are hunted without mercy

Windsinger William Nicholson Social hierarchy and family Love the first in the Wind on Fire trilogy (Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong)

Seeker William Nicholson First in another trilogy

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Patterson An adventure mystery

Johnny and the Bomb Terry Pratchett A time travelling adventure

Brother in the Land Robert Swindells What will happen to the earth in the event of a nuclear attack?

Classics

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The story of a young girl’s passage to adulthood in the early nineteenth century

The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson-Burnett

An adventure into a secret garden showing that people can change…

Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery The first of a series of books about an orphan girl and her new life

Heidi Johanna Spyri Set in Switzerland, a story of friendship and family

Treasure Island R. L. Stevenson A pirate adventure

Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier A young woman tries to unravel the mysteries of her husband’s first wife

Fantasy

Skellig David Almond A strange man found in a garage is the start of an angelic mystery

Midget Tim Bowler Unable to speak, but powerful; family conflict

Basilisk N. M. Brown A story of two worlds

The Dark is Rising series

Susan Cooper A series of 5 books, beginning with Over Sea, Under Stone – a story of a quest

Ingo Helen Dunmore Mermaids and coping with loss

Dark Ground Gillian Cross A boy is forced to survive in a dangerous world…with a twist

Shadow of the Minotaur

Alan Gibbons A gripping, fantasy thriller – Phoenix hates his new home and the new school where he is bullied

Across the Nightingale Floor

Liam Hearn The first of a trilogy – a mystery in the Orient (Grass for his Pillow and Brilliance of the Moon)

Doomspell Cliff McNish A magical fantasy

The Snow Spider Jenny Nimmo The first of a trilogy (Emlyn’s Moon and The Chestnut Soldier) about a boy magician

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Philippa Pearce A time travelling adventure

Northern Lights Philip Pullman A trilogy exploring authority and other worlds (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass)

Mortal Engines Philip Reeve Set in a world where moving cities trawl the globe. Tom and Hester have been thrown out of theirs

Harry Potter J. K. Rowling A series of books about the life of a wizard as he moves through Hogwarts school

Secret Songs Jane Stamp A story of love, Silkies, the sea…

Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein A trilogy about a quest to rid the world of the power of a ring

The Dreamwalker’s Child

Steve Voake Sam Palmer is knocked off a bike and wakes in Aurobon, a parallel world where insects are used as war machines.

Mirror Dreams Catherine Webb A magical adventure with wizards

Historical

Carrie’s War Nina Bowden Evacuation and adventure during WW2

PoW Martin Booth A novel of conflict and adventure

Kezzie Theresa Breslin Mining and transportation

Remembrance Theresa Breslin The story of two families in WW1

King of Shadows Susan Cooper A time travel adventure into the work of Shakespeare

Arthur and the Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The first of a trilogy set in Medieval England

The Kin Peter Dickinson A historical family adventure

Children of Winter Berlie Doherty Set in Eyan – a village isolated by the plague in the 1600s

Street Child Berlie Doherty The story behind the foundation of Dr Barnado’s children’s homes

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank The diary of a Jewish girl in hiding during WW2

Coram Boy Jamilla Gavin Orphans, the Coram hospital, slaves…

Stars of Fortune Cynthia Harnett What happened when Elizabeth I was imprisoned by Mary I?

I Am David Ann Holm A journey from imprisonment

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr A humorous adventure story from WW2

The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier A journey to escape from attack during WW2

Last Train from Kummersdorf

Lesley Wilson Considers the events of the WW2 from the perspective of two young

Real Life Issues

Soundtrack Julie Bertagna Dealing with grief and loss

Pig-heart Boy Malorie Blackman Heart transplant, animal rights, life and death

Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman Racism and prejudice from a different perspective (Knife Edge and Checkmate)

Blubber Judy Blume Bullying and family issues

Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret

Judy Blume Friendships and growing up; thoughts about God and the world

Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Dealing with grief and family life, with a mystery unfolding

Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah

Story of an Ethiopian boy, whose parents abandon him in London to save his life

Goggle Eyes Anne Fine Living with separated parents/divorce

Flour Babies Anne Fine Parenting and family values

Mister God, This is Anna

Fynn A conversation about life and the universe

Love Aubrey Suzanne LaFleur A young girl recovering from the tragedy of losing her father and sister in an accident

Inventing Elliot Graham Garner Bulling

The Edge Alan Gibbons A boy and his mother escape from a life of fear in an abusive relationship

Red Sky in the Morning

Elizabeth Laird The impact of having a disabled baby brother

Jake’s Tower Elizabeth Laird Step families/abuse

Girl Missing Sophie Mackenzie Lauren has always known she was adopted but is it possible she was snatch from her family at birth?

Double Image Pat Moon Coping with loss and mental health issues

Daughter Isobel Moore The life of a young girl caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s Disease

The War of Jenkins’ Ear

Michael Morpurgo Boarding school, acceptance and the question of belief

Why The Whales Came

Michael Morpurgo Dealing with death, separation, prejudice

Sisterland Linda Newbery A parallel sorry between WW2 and the present

My Sister Live On The Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher A young boy’s struggle to make sense of the loss that tore his family apart

Stop Pretending Sonya Sones Poems exploring the feelings of a girl whose sister suffers from mental illness

Stories from other cultures

Little Soldier Bernard Ashley Bullying, family, racism

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho A boy’s quest for the Elixir of life – lots of thinking required

Breadwinner Deborah Ellis Life in Afghanistan under the Taliban – first in a trilogy

Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Fisher-Staples

Issues facing a Muslim desert girl

Under the Persimmon Tree

Suzanne Fisher-Staples

Afghanistan under the Taliban

Lost for Words Elizabeth Lutzeier Moving to England

The Other Side of Truth

Beverley Naidoo Refugees and immigration – read the sequel – Web of Lies

Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah The life of an orphan child in China

Zlata’s Diary Zlata Filipovic A diary from war torn Eastern Europe

Thura’s Diary Thura Al-Windawi A diary from war torn Iraq

AK Peter Dickinson The story of a boy soldier

White Stranger Susan Gates How do we view the values and morals of people from different backgrounds and cultures

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