Nearly two centuries after its first publication, The Snow Queen endures as a tale of love and loss, good and evil, and loyalty in the face of great hardships. I haven’t give a book 5 stars in a long time, and I rarely do. So to give this a full 5 stars, this is saying a lot. This book was written, brimming with palpable emotions and wonderful and relatable characters. Everyone needs to give this book a go. I mean it. Everyone. Holly, Jonathan and Davy had an auntie Irene, who was loaded with money and hid her jewellery and paperwork in safes and buried them in different places.

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I think that it would be really hard looking after someone who thinks that a plastic doll is more important than anything around them, especially if your mum has disappeared and your half sister doesn’t even care. Poetry can be great to broaden reading horizons, as well as truly engaging for reluctant readers. Here are some poetry books your teenager is sure to love and want to read out loud. Like a brilliant hybrid of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson, Sarah Crossan entices you into her world, then tells a moving, perceptive and beautifully crafted, Carnegie Shortlisted story which has the power to make you laugh and cry. A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh The Bookbag

This beautiful novel from multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan explores family, friendship and reconciliation. It is a story about how messy, complicated and surprising love can be. This book was extremely moving and shows the true feelings of a girl my age in poems. When I read this book I felt I was in the novel. The characters and scenarios are so realistic, but dramatic, you feel that you know them. I was amazed by how passionate the poems were - I understood Apple in so many ways that it hurt. Congratulations to Sarah Crossan. I loved your book and want more like it, please.

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It is sad really because one of them has lived with the mum all their lives and one of them hasn’t, but the mum has ruined both of their lives anyway. At the end of the book both Apple and Rain end up living with Grandma, but see the mum every so often. They don’t end up hating mum because she was fun and lively but she clearly was too busy to look after them both. Towards the end, you could kind of see what would happen next, but, even so, when it actually came, it was still heart racing and exciting, and I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next, and hoping beyond everything, that it would all be ok in the end. The characters - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and Hilary (known as “The Lamb”) and the Psammead - first appeared in the book ‘Five Children and It’, written by E Nesbit in 1902. Five Children on the Western Front introduces the new character of Edith, known as ‘Edie’ and is set nine years after the original story. AppleWatchSeries2and later have a water-resistance rating of 50 meters under ISO standard 22810:2010. I loved the interactions between Apple and Rain. At first I was slightly perturbed by Rain's 'weirdness', but once more came to light, you could see she was just as lost as Apple, if not more so, and was trying to cope in her own individual way. Apple's attempts to care for Rain were beautiful, and I really forgot that she was only 13 herself - she seemed so much more mature, especially if you compare her with the mother, Annie. To talk about Annie, I honestly could not stand her, I understood that she'd made mistakes, was couldn't cope with a 3 year old when she was only 20, but ever since she'd returned she just played on Apple's insecurities and kindness for her own gain. She was so not fit to be a mother, and, honestly, needed to give her head a good shake.

Sarah is the go-to writer of the free verse novel in the UK and Ireland, and is the current Laureate na nÓg (Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate). Her theme as Laureate is #WeAreThePoets, a two-year project inspiring young people to express themselves through poetry and verse.