NYR 2008: Red Hot Reads

What is hot in your library? Share your students' favourites with us by e-mailing their top titles to mailto:redhotreads(at)sla.org.uk. We may also post recommendations from the SLA Members' Discussion Forum.

Top of the table at the moment are:

Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
Apache by Tanya Landman
Life on the Refrigerator Door by A Kuipers
The Fire Within Series by Chris d'Lacey
The Cherub Series by Robert Muchamore

Jane Smith-Haddon
Wyedean School
Chepstow

Our hot reads recently have been:

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (incredible popular with the girls)
The Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore
Noughts and Crosses Trilogy by Malorie Blackman  (still hugely popular even after all this time!)
Anything by Trudi Canavan
Girl Missing by Sophie McKenzie
Cherub series by Robert Muchamore

Ms J Bulloch
Hutchesons' Grammar School

Earlier hot reads

Hot reads currently appear to be Louis Sachar's Holes, any Jacqueline Wilson or Karen McCombie and Simpsons or Garfield books
Frances Sinclair, Orkney

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, The Cherub Series by Robert Muchamore, Darren Shan's new series, and rather strangely the new cook books I've bought! The boys can't get enough of Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver!
Duncan Wright, Edinburgh 

The Declaration by Gemma Malley
This is the red-hot read of my Year 7 girls! In a world where science has finally discovered the secret of eternal life, there is no longer any need for children. In fact the law forbids people from having children. Those few children who are born are made to feel that all they can do is to try to make amends for the selfish act their parents committed in having them. Anna Covey is a ‘surplus' and has accepted her fate until a mysterious boy arrives with news of the parents she has been raised by society to hate. This is a very timely book that in the best tradition of SciFi provides plenty to think about while at the same time telling a compelling story of a young girl's discovery of both her past and of her future. It is one that I am glad my girls recommended to me!
Anne-Marie Tarter, North Yorkshire

At the moment in our LRC The Book Thief is the book that never goes back on the shelves and having read it and loved it I can see why! Other perennially popular books with our boys include the Captain Underpants series, Cherub, Maximum Ride, Horrid Henry and anything by Bali Rai.
Beverley Hughes, London

Robert Muchamore's Cherub series is a big hit, as are Michael Lawrence's Jiggy McCue stories. Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant has proved very popular; similarly Captain Underpants, Simpsons comics and Mr Gum stories (the latter following a really successful visit from Andy Stanton last November) hardly hit the shelves. A new favourite is the manga story Translucent, Volume 1 by Kazuhiro Okamoto which seems to go out as soon as it comes back!
Liz Smith, Pembroke

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