英国顶尖女校对于不同年龄阶段的书籍推荐！

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Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful spires, cosy libraries and inviting tea-rooms – but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College.

Two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. At least, it appears to be an accident – until the Detective Society look a little closer, and realise a murder has taken place. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage to find the killer (in time for Christmas Day, of course).

The fabulously festive fifth mystery from the bestselling, award- winning author of Murder Most Unladylike

In this moving story two teens   fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet   of each other without risking their lives.

Can you love someone you can never   touch?

Stella Grant likes to be in   control – even though her out of control lungs have sent her to the hospital   most of her life. What Stella needs to control most is keeping away from   anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility   of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.

The only thing Will Newman wants   to control is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his   treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and   then he can unplug all the machines and travel the world, not just its   hospitals.

Will’s exactly what Stella needs   to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on her, Stella could lose her   spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay   alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It   feels like punishment.

What if they could steal back just   a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would   five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking   too?

Sat on the bus days before Christmas, Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya goes to the police, who shrug and send her away. Then a body turns up…

Now convinced she is a vital witness to a crime, the police send Maya into hiding in rural Wales. She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. Then the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if someone can still get in?

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In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry. When a family reunion is marred by murder – and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.

The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded all four sons – one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive – and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heart-warming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind.

He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces he’s cutting off their allowances and changing his will. Poirot is called in the aftermath of Simeon Lee’s announcement.

There are three sides to every story…

It’s GCSE results day. Frankie’s best friend, Jojo, is missing. A baby has been stolen. And more than one person has been lying. Frankie’s determined to find out the truth and her ex-boyfriend Ram is the only person who can help her. But they’re both in for a shock…EVERYTHING is about to change.

A breath-taking conclusion to Malorie Blackman’s ground-breaking Noughts and Crosses dystopian series. Set twenty years after the original story that charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a Nought).

The first Nought Prime Minister, Tobey Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons. Tobey insists he is being framed.

There were ten seats at Dan’s dinner party the night he was killed and each guest had their own reasons for wishing him dead.

Sephy Hadley was one of the guests that night. Haunted by the idea that she didn’t do enough to stop the death of her first love, Callum McGregor, Sephy will not sit quietly and wait for accusations to fall on her now. She has her children to protect.

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A promise   to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive.

From   international bestselling author Heather Morris comes the breath-taking   conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy.

When they   are girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father – that they   will stay together, no matter what.

Years   later, at just 15 years old, Livia is ordered to Auschwitz by the Nazis.   Cibi, only 19 herself, remembers their promise and follows Livia, determined   to protect her sister, or die with her.

In their   hometown in Slovakia, 17-year-old Magda hides, desperate to evade the   barbaric Nazi forces. But it is not long before she is captured and condemned   to Auschwitz.

In the   horror of the death camp, these three beautiful sisters are reunited. Though   traumatised by their experiences, they are together.

They make   another promise: that they will live. Their fight for survival takes them   from the hell of Auschwitz, to a death march across war-torn Europe and   eventually home to Slovakia, now under iron Communist rule.

Determined to   begin again, they embark on a voyage of renewal, to the new Jewish homeland,   Israel.

Rich in vivid detail, and   beautifully told, Three Sisters will break your heart, but leave you amazed   and uplifted by the courage and fierce love of three sisters, whose promise   to each other kept them alive. Two of the sisters are in Israel today,   surrounded by family and friends. They have chosen Heather Morris to   reimagine their story in her astonishing new novel, Three Sisters.

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist, stunningly illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill.

Exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods, Medusa has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. But when a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her lonely existence is disrupted with the force of a supernova, unleashing desire, love, betrayal and destiny itself.

Filled with glorious full-colour illustrations by award-winning Olivia Lomenech Gill. This astonishing retelling of Greek myth is perfect for readers of Circe and The Silence of the Girls. Illuminating the girl behind the legend, it brings alive Medusa for a new generation.

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**

‘A tour de force… A spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh,‘ Booker Judges 2021

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for – not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land… yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams; deliciously lethal in its observation. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel’s title.

In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest.

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