Raglan Area School

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  • What Alice Forgot

    By Liane Moriaty
    0 stars

  • Small Things Like These

    By Claire Keegan
    5 stars

    Booker Prize winner 2022, really enjoyed it. It is fiction but an insight into Ireland’s Magdalen laundries and based on the life of a man and his family during difficult times.

  • The Kurdish Bike

    By Alesa Lightbourne
    3 stars

    An American teacher’s ‘loose account’ of her experiences teaching in an international school in northern Iraq. It started as a memoir, but became a novel as the school is fictional and I think, most of the characters.

  • Girl, Woman, Other

    By Bernardine Evaristo
    5 stars

    I couldn't put this book down! It tells the stories of 12 characters living in Britain, their trials and tribulations, and how they are interconnected. It won the Booker Prize 2019 and shortlisted for Women's Prize for Fiction 2020.

  • Demon Copperhead

    By Barbara Kingsolver
    5 stars

    I loved it! Essentially about Demon Copperhead being born into poverty, the opioid crisis, and addiction, how he navigates his way through life with family and friends, and his dream to someday see the ocean.

  • The Axeman's Carnival

    By Catherine Chidgey
    5 stars

    It is about a magpie (named Tama) who Marnie rescues and teaches to speak. The story weaves its way toward the up-and-coming 'Axeman's Carnival', in which Marnie's volatile husband Rob is competing. Through the eyes of Tama we're told the tale of domestic abuse and the price of fame.

  • There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom

    By Louis Sachar
    4 stars

    An entertaining 'feel good' story about a boy's struggles with friendships and school, and how his life changes when he starts visiting a school counselor.

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