The Island at the End of Everything

“I was talking about a golden age of children’s literature and the author of this book, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, is up there. She started off as a poet. She writes books that feel like they’ve been around forever, and she’s only in her mid-20s. So she’s precociously brilliant. Her books are objects of excellence.” Read more...

The Best Tween Books of 2017

Zoe Greaves, Children's Author

“A captivating novel set on a tropical island that is used as a leper colony. This is a story about a young girl who is uprooted from her simple, happy home on a tropical island called Culion in South East Asia – a place where she feels secure despite the shadow of her mother’s illness. A place that is beautiful in every way imaginable until the day she is forcibly taken away by the government because her mother has leprosy. Furthermore, the island is to become a colony for lepers.” Read more...

Rachel Hickman recommends the best Novels Set in Wild Places

Rachel Hickman, Children's Author