Children's Reading Group

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Waterstones
5/33 Bon Accord Centre
Aberdeen
AB25 1HZ

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Come along on Sunday the 1st of March from 11am to noon to discuss 'The Middler,' by Kirsty Applebaum, a dystopian thriller take on 'middle child syndrome.' *'I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.* *Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig - everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler; invisible and left behind.* *Then, one hot September day, she meets Una, a hungry wanderer girl in need of help, and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head.'* This book group is open to young people aged eight years upwards. Please pop us an email or ask a bookseller for more details if you are interested.

Come along on Sunday the 1st of March from 11am to noon to discuss 'The Middler,' by Kirsty Applebaum, a dystopian thriller take on 'middle child syndrome.'

'I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.

Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig - everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler; invisible and left behind.

Then, one hot September day, she meets Una, a hungry wanderer girl in need of help, and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head.'

This book group is open to young people aged eight years upwards. Please pop us an email or ask a bookseller for more details if you are interested.