Really want to recommend ... Pls add yours

[AnneEtAramis]

Garibaldi's Biscuits by Ralph Steadman

We picked it up on our monthly book shop trip and it is IMO brilliant. We love history so it was great for us, but also is just an entertaining story that my 9,7 and 4 year old all enjoy indifferent ways. Always on the lookout for new books so please post if you have any that you/your family just love.

Lies We Tell Ourselves - dd got it with a book token at the start of the holidays, and passed it on to me to read. DD's 13, but I'd say suitable for anyone of secondary age - it's a novel set in 1950s American south during the fight for civil rights and integrated education.

Oh that looks great. I might pick that up myself.

The Peter's Railway series of books. Really super books, well written and beautifully illustrated with great science and engineering too.

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. One of the few books I adored as a child that really was just as good. In general a little sexist but Mrs Frisby kicks arse.
I read it ay about 9 I think but I just read it to ds aged 11 and he liked it.

Betsy by Dorothy Canfield. Written about a century ago, absolutely gripping. A very female world and all about girls and women being capable. Another one I loved at 7 or 8 I think.

'The paper dolls' by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb, makes me tear up every time.

From my childhood, The Phantom Tollbooth, which was read to us by a favourite teacher when I was about 8. I'm really happy that my DD1 is reading it at the moment.

DD's recommendation - Uglies by Scott Westerfield. It's a YA dystopia, but much more ambiguous than most (and becomes more so in later books in the trilogy). Think Brave New World with hoverboards and social networking

Thanks for all your suggestions. It will be that time of the month soon so looking forward to having a look at some of these.