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Children and Young People booklist - Spine-tinglers

Children and Young People booklist for October 2018

Spine-tinglers

This month we have selected our favourite Spine-tinglers and Spooky Stories.

What does ‘spine-tingling’ mean to you?

Often we first of all think ‘scary’ – something that will make us shiver with fear – but something spine-tingling could equally give us shivers of laughter or thrills of pleasure!

‘Very special and exciting’ is another definition, and in this pack for your Chatterbooks reading group there are lots of different books with stories that are scary, absorbing, funny, or fantastic – all of them with something special.

You can find out more about some of our picks on the Summer Reading Challenge news page.

There is also a Chatterbooks pack based upon this booklist.

News

Radio 2 Book Club - Winter titles

The Winter season of the Radio 2 Book Club is out now, with brilliant brand-new fiction titles to discover. The BBC Radio 2 Book Club is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. It features a wide range of titles and authors, recommending great reads from both new and much-loved writers, encouraging listeners to perhaps try out a genre they might not have read before, and share their opinions and insights on the titles and great reads they’re enjoying right now.

Resources

How to start a reading group

Interested in joining a reading group or starting one of your own? Download our quick guide to getting started. You can also download icebreaker questions to help get your discussion started, and a social media guide to show how you can share your reading with others online.

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Discussion guides

We know how useful a discussion guide is for your book club meeting, so here you’ll find some recent guides provided by publishers. Free to download, you can use them to help choose your next book and guide your discussion.

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