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This week’s featured book, Girl, Boy, Sea, is the perfect example of why we should never judge a book by its cover; our group felt the design suggests a book aimed at younger...
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This week’s featured book, Girl, Boy, Sea, is the perfect example of why we should never judge a book by its cover; our group felt the design suggests a book aimed at younger...
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Dear students, parents and carers, This week’s STEM challenge involves some more Science magic! Can you get two ping pong balls to float in the air at the same time? ...
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Virtual Employer Engagement During this unprecedented time, in order to ensure our students still have the opportunity to find out about the world of work and speak to employers,...
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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1960) by Harper Lee This Pulitzer Prize winning novel concerns the essential nature of right and wrong and how good and evil can coexist. Through...
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The English Faculty would like to draw your attention to another writing competition opportunity. This one has longer for you to create your masterpiece:
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This week’s featured book, Girl, Boy, Sea, is the perfect example of why we should never judge a book by its cover; our group felt the design suggests a book aimed at younger readers, however that certainly wasn’t the case and they appear to have really enjoyed it!
Girl, Boy, Sea by Chris Vick
Fifteen year old Bill is lost and alone on an endless sea after a storm sinks his yacht off the coast of the Canary Islands. In a twist of fate he finds another survivor from a different wreck, clinging to a floating barrel. The girl is Aya, a refugee from the nomadic Berber tribe. Whilst Bill sets about their situation with practical skills to ensure their survival, Aya acts as storyteller, recounting her own versions of the Arabian Nights.
What Bushey Meads Shadowers say:
“Girl, Boy, Sea was an amazing book that was full of friendship! It’s a world of fear and the discovery of an unlikely friendship! ” – Alayna, Yr 7
“I really liked the book, it was nothing that I had expected, it wasn’t like a happily ever after or like a fairytale, it was about a girl and boy who had to help each other survive through excruciating conditions in their little boat with few supplies. They had to figure out how to communicate while in the middle of the ocean and barely alive until they reach land.” – Benigna Yr8
With the sea as a dominant backdrop – both beautiful and tempestuous, the book explores friendship and endurance across cultures. The inclusion of the stories told by Aya, portray the escapism people find in reading fiction. You can see a fascinating interview with Chris Vick talking about this book and reading an extract at https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/books/girl-boy-sea/ .
If you would like to read the book, it is available from our new ebook collection. Simply download the Sora app or go to soraapp.com, enter the setup code: uk secondary, find Bushey Meads School and log in with your GMail credentials to get started.
This week’s featured book certainly packs a punch! When we hurriedly gave out the books for Shadowing, on the last day in school, and Archie took Patron Saint of Nothing,...