23 May 2025
Seven students in Year 7 and 8 have been taking part in the Carnegie Shadowing Book Club on Fridays. These students are reading and shadowing the judging process for the prestigious Carnegie awards. Each week we meet and discuss the shortlist and complete activities based on them (...and eat lots of biscuits!). Next month, the students will be performing a piece based on one of the books to other local schools and have the chance to meet a previously nominated author, Tia Fisher!
Here are the books in this year's shortlist: Little Bang - Kelly McCaughrain, The Things We Leave Behind - Claire Furniss, The Final Year - Matt Goodfellow, All That It Ever Meant - Blessing Musariri Play - Luke Palmer, Glasgow Boys - Margaret McDonald, King of Nothing - Nathanel Lessore, and Treacle Town - Brian Conaghan.