Please make very welcome here at The Book Gryffin to our newest guest reviewer, Finn. I am sure you will all be just as thrilled and delighted as I am, to have such a talented young man sharing his bookish thoughts with us! SPOILER ALERT!!! Be warned though, Finn has revealed a few spoilers, so [...]
As you are all aware, The Book Gryffin has been heavily reliant on the reviews of my talented and well read students, owing to my commitments to the Aurealis Award’s. I am sure you will all agree they are doing a spectacular job of keeping you all informed about the vast array of quality Young [...]
Another lovely review by Emilly the Great A stunningly beautiful novel about a young boy’s survival during a winter that never ends. 2059. The snow begins to fall. Only the few are prepared. A new ice-age has begun. Born after the snows, fifteen-year-old straggler kid Willo Blake has never known a life outside hunting and [...]
Hello Beautiful people, Today I bring you a guest review by one of my gorgeous students, Emilly… Enjoy My Rating:  Publication Date: September 2011 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover , 368pp Genre: Young Adult, Dystopian Series: Birthright Series Overview: In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water [...]
I am delighted to share this wonderful review, written by one of my very talented and gorgeous students, Maddie. Please make her feel welcome! Bloodlines is a spin off from Richelle’s other series called Vampire Academy. Vampire Academy focused on one character called Rose. Bloodlines gets Vampire Academy’s secondary characters to take centre stage. Bloodlines [...]
I must confess to glancing at the contemporary, stylised ‘movie poster’ cover for Stasia Ward Kehoe’s Audition and dismissing it instantly. (Interestingly, I did the very same thing with Anna And The French Kiss- Stephanie Perkins, which thanks to Persnickety Snark, I later read and adored) Still unsure of what caught my attention and prompted [...]
I have another guest review by the lovely Tegan for you all to enjoy!! I for one, am not much of a space person. By space person, I mean like a Star Wars person, where the whole thing basically revolves around the pew pewpew pew of the ships flying around in space. Although GLOW did [...]
I am thrilled to introduce you all to a new guest reviewer for The Book Gryffin. Beth is a student at my school and an avid and mature reader. I have had many conversations with beth about her reading and her enthusiasm is admirable. Very early in the year, we were fortunate enough to have [...]
Today on The Book Gryffin…Guest reviewer Tegan is back with her thoughts on Maile Meloy’s wonderful novel, The Apothecary. Allow for the possibilities! Allowing for the possibilities is probably the most important thing you will need to do when reading this book! Its not everyday that you read a book where there is an elixir [...]
My TBR pile has reached alarming levels at the moment, as I read as frantically as I can, trying to keep up with all the amazing books coming out for our Children and Young Adults in the last few months. Extremely fortunate for me, I have several delightful students who are more than willing to [...]
