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Today,  the A-Z of authors continues with:

S is for Shusterman – Neal Shusterman’s “Scythe”. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life – and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe – a role that neither wants. These teens must master the ‘art’ of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.

T is for Thomas – Angie Thomas’ “The hate U give”. Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.

U is for Urban – Luise Urban’s “East of the Oder” which describes a German Childhood under the Nazis and Soviets.  Luise’s family lived east of the river Oder, and as the Third Reich crumbled and the Soviet Red Army advanced, she was one of 15 million Germans trapped in a war zone during the terrible winter of 1945. Weakened by starvation and forced to flee their home, it was only the bravery and ingenuity of Luise’s mother that saved the family from total destruction. In East of the Oder, Luise relives that harrowing time, written in memory of her mother, to whom she owes her life. (For senior pupils and adults).