Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s topic is Books for My Younger Self. Rather than stick strictly to the topic, my list contains books (both fiction and nonfiction) that feature young people who do remarkable things. Something to educate and inspire readers of all ages.
The Boy With Blue Trousers by Carol Jones – in the goldfields of 19th-century Australia, two very different girls try to escape their past
The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton – a young woman joins the French Resistance
The Young Survivors by Debra Barnes – five children of a Jewish family must survive the loss of their home and separation from their parents when Germany invades France in WW2
The Wanderers by Tim Pears – a young boy travels alone through the West Country
The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor – a group of schoolchildren and their teachers endure the Japanese occupation of China
Summerland by Lucy Adlington – a young refugee has to make a life in a new country
Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton – a young girl evacuated from her home in Berlin during WW2 becomes involved in documenting the identities of the survivors of a wartime atrocity
The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews – young Jewish children are forced to take refuge in a village hidden deep within a Belgian forest during WW2
Song by Michelle Jana Chan – a boy leaves behind his impoverished family in China to travel to Guyana in the hope of making his fortune
Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers – a girl from the slums of Kampala becomes a chess champion
I read eighteen books in August. Yes, I was amazed by that figure too. It just goes to show how ARC August and the final month of the 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge can get you powering through the books! And there was quality amongst the quantity as well, so much so it was a tough job picking just five. Links from the titles will take you to my reviews.
