BOOK SELECTIONS
The Hive by Gill Hornby
We will be starting with this book in January 2026. Here is the blurb:
"Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of friendships, fights and feuding. and that's just the mothers. Meet:
Beatrice - undisputed queen bee
Heather - desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate just to belong.
Georgie - desperate for a fag.
Rachel - once Bea's best friend, now dumped for no good reason. Can she survive the year as an outcast, and maybe even thrive?"
Order from your local library or click here to purchase a copy.
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis
Here is the blurb:
"When Vivians' kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys, and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.
As Vivian careens from hellhounds in the school corridors to demons at the talent show, she races to keep up with all the arcane secrets of her new society - shops only accessible by magic portal, the brutal Trials to enter high school, and the eternal inferno that is the parents; WhatsApp group.
And looming over everything is a prophecy of doom that sounds suspiciously like it's about Aria. Vivian might be facing the end of days, just as soon as she can get her daughter dressed and out of the door...."
Order from your local library or click here to purchase a copy.
The School Gate Survival Guide by Kerry Fisher
Here is the blurb:
"Maia is a cleaner for ladies who lunch. With mops and buckets in tow, she spends her days dashing from house to house cleaning up after them, as they rush from one exhausting Pilates class to the next.
But an unusual inheritance catapults her and her children into the very exclusive world of Stirling Hall School - a place where no child can survive without organic apricots and no women goes a week without a manicure.
As Maid and her children, Bronte and Harley, try to settle into their new life, Maia is inadvertently drawn to the one man who can help her family fit in. But is his interest in her purely professional? And will it win her any favours at the school gate?"
Order from your local library or click here to purchase a copy.
Murder at the PTA by Laura Alden
Here is the blurb:
"As the owner of a children's bookshop in the quaint town of Lynwood, Wisconsin, and a mother of two, Beth Kennedy has a full plate. So when her best friend Marina, asks her to become the secretary for Tarver Elementary School's PTA, Beth can think of better ways to occupy what little free time she has. But after some arm-twisting (Marina's favourite activity), Beth agrees to come on board.
The course of PTA meetings never has run smoothly, but when Tarver's unpopular principal turns up dead, Beth realises that making bake sales wheat-free and funding class trips weren't the only things on the agenda. Then the local gossip blog, WisconSINS, starts fanning the flames of speculation, and it seems like everyone is a suspect - especially certain members of the PTA. Beth knows she must race to find the killer before he teachers another fatal lesson."
Order from your local library or click here or here to purchase a copy.
