Edited on 25/07/2025 to add reference to and discussion of the ALIA Code of Ethics – Cannot believe I missed this! 🤦‍♀️ I recently wrote the following piece to share my thinking and decision-making process with my students, following questions raised about the inclusion of an author’s work in a particular subject. I thought it…
Category: Bookish Things
Book-sell blurb: Fuzzy Mud
The biggest bully in the school is missing, there’s this weird rash spreading up Tamaya’s arm and there’s this weird mud spreading throughout the town that has the US Government all freaked out… Tamaya usually walks home with her neighbour, Marshall, but one day, he demands they cut through the woods. Tamaya knows her mum…
Book-sell blurb: How To Be Happy
Ok, so, how do you know if you’re ‘normal,’ and should you even be worrying about that? Figuring out who you are is difficult enough, but when you just can’t seem to get it right, and everything is going wrong, what else can you do but become someone totally new… Enter ‘Crazy Dave’… This is…
Book-sell blurb: They Saw Too Much
Being on the run for your life is not easy, but it’s even harder when you don’t know or trust the only person who understands – the person who witnessed the murder with you… Partnered together for a school art project, John and Ceri decide to take photos at the beach. At first, it’s fun,…
Book-sell blurb: Someday Birds
Your dad is in hospital on the other side of the country. There’s this strange woman in your house who is supposed to be “babysitting” you and your siblings. Your sister convinces you to run away on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend to find your dad but you end up stranded in Las…
Book-sell blurb: Six of Crows
This town isn’t big enough for more than one gang, and Kaz will do almost anything to be the only man of power in Ketterdam. Would you join him? Ketterdam is run by criminals, exiled Grisha, and hunters. Survival is a way of life. Loyalty and honesty are almost non-existent and money is power. In…
Book-sell blurb: Grace and Fury
It’s deadly to be a woman in this world, especially one who likes to think for herself. Would you survive? Two sisters. One heir. A twist of fate. Imprisonment or marriage? How will they save themselves? Serina was born for a life in the palace as the wife of the next heir. Nomi was born…
Book-sell blurb: Red Queen
Imagine living in a world where the colour of your blood decides how much power you’re allowed to have, until one day, you realise that your Red blood is just as powerful, if not more so than that of the Silvers… Mare is a red blood in a world made for silver bloods. Silvers have…
Book-sell blurb: The Extraordinaries
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world with real-life superheroes? Would you ever want to meet them or maybe even write stories about them? Nick not only idealises Shadow Star, but he also writes fanfic dedicated to his favourite superhero. After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nick decides that…
Book-sell blurbs for YA
I have recently been trying to think of ways I can help overworked, time-poor, teacher librarians (TLs), particularly those with smaller teams or working by themselves. In a conversation with one of my TL colleagues, she got me thinking about how time-consuming and difficult it is for one person to read ALL THE BOOKS (not…
The Lifting Librarian 