Students can get a lend of Hugo Hamilton's memoir, "The Speckled People" from the Library for this month's Book Club read.
This month's book is Hugo Hamilton's memoir, "The Speckled People". Teenreads.com, rates it as having a great opening chapter. Roddy Doyle on reading the book, said "This is the most gripping book I've read in ages. And it's beautifully written: what could have been safe memories are made new-lived and real in this fascinating, disturbing and often very funny memoir." " " Roddy
Every month the School Book Club will have a different book for students to read. If you like the look of the book, you can borrow it from the Library. You have a month to read it. Every month we'll meet in the Library to chat about what we thought of the book. The discussion is also continued on Stratfordmoodle in the Library folder where you can see videos of the author's reading excerpts from their books.
Ms. O'Kelly
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