{"id":2076,"date":"2024-05-10T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:59:34","slug":"what-to-read-this-may-for-secondary-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/what-to-read-this-may-for-secondary-students\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Read This May (For Secondary Students)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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What Monstrous Gods- by Rosamund Hodge<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia\u2019s palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep\u2014and silencing the kingdom\u2019s gods. Born with a miraculous gift, Lia\u2019s destiny is to kill Ruven and wake the royals. But when she succeeds, she finds her duty is not yet complete, for now she must marry into the royal family and forge a pact with a god\u2014or die. To make matters even worse, Ruven\u2019s spirit is haunting her. As discord grows between the old and new guards, the queen sends Lia and Prince Araunn, her betrothed, on a pilgrimage to awaken the gods. But the old gods are more dangerous than Lia ever knew\u2014and Ruven may offer her only hope of survival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Poisons We Drink- by Bethany Baptiste<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her.Then an enemy\u2019s iron bullet kills her mother, Venus\u2019s life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister Janus safe is now her responsibility. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother\u2019s killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge. The cost? Brew poisonous potions to enslave D.C.\u2019s most influential politicians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Hedgewitch of Foxhall- by Anna Bright<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Magic is fading from Wales\u2014choked off by King Offa\u2019s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. When Prince Taliesin arrives, begrudgingly seeking a witch\u2019s aid, Ffion agrees to help him\u2014even if it means walking from one end of Wales to the other with the most use-less peacock she\u2019s ever clapped eyes on. Even if it means striking a bargain with Dafydd behind Tal\u2019s back. The fate of Wales depends on their quest . . . and so might the fate of Ffion\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Under This Red Rock- by Mindy McGinnis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Neely\u2019s monsters don\u2019t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she\u2019s in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can\u2019t follow\u2014the caverns. There . . . she meets Mila. Mila is everything Neely isn\u2019t\u2014beautiful, strong, and confident. As the two become closer, Neely\u2019s innocent crush grows into something more. When a midnight staff party exposes Neely to drugs, she follows Mila\u2019s lead . . . only to have her hallucinations escalate. When Mila is found brutally murdered in the caverns, Neely has to admit that her memories of that night are vague at best. With her monsters now out in the open and her grip on reality slipping, Neely must figure out who killed Mila . . . and face the possibility that it might have been her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Icarus- by K. Ancrum<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father\u2019s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man\u2014the wealthy Mr. Black\u2014has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus\u2019s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don\u2019t let anyone close. Don\u2019t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don\u2019t get caught. Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous\u2014a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncover the gilded cage that has trapped both their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Book, Beast, And Crow- by Elizabeth Byrne<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anna Kellogg has always felt different. Growing up in Hartwood, New Jersey\u2014where frequent disappearances are attributed to an urban-legend-like beast that dwells in the walled-in swamp at the center of town\u2014can have that effect on people. But for Anna, it\u2019s more than that. Since she was a child, she\u2019s been plagued by episodes where she sees things others can\u2019t see. Feeling different is one thing, but actually being different is another. If it weren\u2019t for her best friend, Olivia, Anna\u2019s not sure where she\u2019d fit in. But any hopes of having a normal senior year come to a halt when Olivia is attacked in the woods, bitten, and left for dead by a whirling cyclone of claws, fur, and teeth. Though Olivia survives, a sinister entity makes it clear that the mark had been set on Anna\u2026and the miss has set in motion a catastrophic shift that will change Anna and her friends\u2019 lives forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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KS3 Top Reads! What Monstrous Gods- by Rosamund Hodge Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia\u2019s palace, casting the royal family into an enchanted sleep\u2014and silencing the kingdom\u2019s gods. Born with a miraculous gift, Lia\u2019s destiny is to kill Ruven and wake the royals. But when she succeeds, she finds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"category-supporting-reading"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seven-springs.co.uk\/resource-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}