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The Wells Primary School Book Award – Years 3 and 4

We are delighted to announce our very first book award for the children in Years 3 and 4. There are 14 exciting books in the longlist, carefully chosen to engage and extend the children’s reading practice and to cater for all tastes and interests. The diverse range includes the genres of adventure, mystery, fantasy, poetry, biography and realistic fiction. Children will find books containing letter-writing giraffes, a wounded wolf, a dad who wants to fly and beetles galore but embedded within the stories are powerful themes such as friendship, mental health, campaign for change, refugees, empathy, grief, dyslexia and autism.

We recently introduced the Redbridge Children’s Book Award to Years 5 and 6 and the response has been overwhelming with some children managing to read as many as 10 books in the first two weeks! We are therefore very excited to be able to offer the same opportunity to Years 3 and 4 and look forward to finding out what they think of the books we have chosen.

See the longlist with a short synopsis of each title here.
We would love to know your thoughts, why not leave a comment? Thank you.

Mrs Oshungbure
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Sky Hawk

Sky Hawk

One of my favourite books!

This book has thrilling action, sadness, happiness, excitement and romance. It is perfect because it has cliff hangers and ends with page turners. I chose this book in a library just by reading the blurb and read up to two chapters a day.

It is about a boy called Callum who lives on a farm. He spots a girl who is trying to catch a fish and manages it first try; she is called Iona. She becomes one of Callum’s best friends but unfortunately his other two friends make fun of Iona and Callum struggles to manage these relationships. Iona has a secret that she can’t trust anyone else with but Callum – she has found an osprey nesting on the farm.

Iona sadly passes away with summer ‘flu leaving Callum feeling desperately lost. He finds comfort in caring for the osprey and this leads him to make unlikely friendships all the way in Africa! I would recommend reading this book because it helps you when you have sad times in life and you can’t take advice from anyone else. I enjoyed this book and class it as one of my favourites.

Lani, Y5