![]() While his older brothers long for adventure, Quinn is content with a quiet life on the farm, but when word of his special talent gets out, he has no choice but to pack his bags and join the mismatched crew of slaves and stowaways on board the Libertas. To do that, they’ll need mapmakers – and 14-year-old Quinn is shocked to be one of the chosen. The King is determined to discover what lies beyond the known world, and has promised a handsome prize to the ship’s captain who can bring him a map of the whole globe. ‘Race to the end of the world’ is the first book in ‘The Mapmaker Chronicles’ adventure trilogy. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents committed such a terrible crime that they were thrown overboard, and their daughter ostracised. In that time, the ship’s crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes, the Cooks, the Officers and the Engineers. ![]() Petrel is an outcast, the lowest of the low on an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same course for three hundred years. Short-listed, Aurealis Awards, Best Children’s Book, 2013. I have also been asking my Year Six students this week to write lists of their fav books of 2014 (on old library card catalogue cards!) and some series have come up time and time again including ‘The Hunger Games’ ‘Skulduggery Pleasant’ ‘Mortal Instruments’ ‘Divergent’ ‘Mosquito Advertising’ and ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’. If you would like books aimed more at readers 10-12, check out my ‘Year Six Book Club’ posts here.Ĭlick on titles of series or cover images to add these books to your home, school or library collection. Some are for an older audience and I have marked them as such – use your discretion of course – some readers are ready for ‘older’ books, some are not. If you have readers from 10 years – young adult in your life I highly recommend the following series. There is nothing better than using the school holidays as a chance to become totally immersed in the world of a brilliant book series! I remember reading John Marsden’s iconic ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’ series during one Christmas holidays (in my twenties!) and never wanting the holidays to end.
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