Time To Read

Squirm by Carl Hiaasen

Squirm is a funny, wildly entertaining adventure about the great outdoors and protecting the environment. This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbour's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. A wildly entertaining adventure involving snakes, grizzlies, a menacing drone, a missing father, and the son determined to find him.

Eric Series: Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard… Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discworld's most popular characters in an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more - this time, quite fervently, that he'd never been born. The Discworld series spans more than forty books, Faust is the shortest in the series, fast-paced, funny and good choice to get a feel for Pratchett’s style.

Alex in Wonderland by Simon James Green

In the town of Newsands, painfully shy Alex is abandoned by his two best friends for the summer. But he unexpectedly lands a part-time job at Wonderland, a run-down amusement arcade on the seafront, where he gets to know the other teen misfits who work there. Mr Gormley says: “Simon James Green tells a good story and this one is full of the unexpected! Alex is a really likable character and I was sorry to get to the end of the book.”