This was the last meeting. It was fun and quite stupid but it was a time to remember the meetings and the books we had read. Our last month we read Tokyo: Eyewitness Travel, we all decided that we would go to Tokyo one day. Ella had read The Perks of Being a Wallflower and was very excited so you can see her posing with it in the photo on the right.

Our club was a great experience and I wouldn't change it for the world. In total, we read 24 books as follows:

1.      Girl Online 
2. The Diary of Anne Frank 
3. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  
4.    Stay Where You Are 
5.  The Maze Runner Series (4 books) 
6. The Mortal Instruments Series (7 books) 
7. The Infernal Devices Series (3 books) 
8. Entwined 
9. My sister is a Vampire 
10. The Perks of being a Wallflower 
11. Eye Witness Travel Tokyo 
12. The Book of Baking 
13.  Italian Cooking

Date: 6th December 2016
Members attended: Aria, Ella and Surina

Originally I had planned to read The Diary of Anne Frank, however, Aria and Surina had already read it. My English Teacher suggested that we read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. 
When we met Aria said that she had also read Stay Where You Are and Then Leave. I read The Diary of Anne Frank. So from one book, our month changed to a theme World Wars.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was set in Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Stay Where You Are and Then Leave starts the day the First World War breaks out, Alfie Summerfield's father promises he wouldn't go away to fight - but he breaks that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place.


The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank is set in in 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death.