This really ties it into our own world events, and also means that the destination for the children's journey is somewhere readers can maybe visit and actually see for themselves what rewilding efforts can lead to. Yet the story sets so much promise in the courage and determination of Juniper and Bear that a sense of positivity and uncrushable human spirit is always driving the action alongside the desperate scenes and struggles. As a reader I wanted them to be safe, but I also wanted them to survive in the wild, because the thought of them going back to that city was terrible. The relationship between the siblings was just great, I loved how pure and protective they were of each other.

They simply couldn’t imagine the damage, or the parts of the world that were being damaged, sufficiently to care. Content warnings include bullying, gun violence, injury and death of people and animals, and mention of mental health. This is dystopian fiction, where a man made virus has killed most people on earth - an imagined tale but close to reality.This book was so moving and captivating, told with language that is neither difficult to understand, nor extremely bland or simple. Junipers narrative throughout the book is so wonderful, a steady level voice most can relate to, mature but not so much teenagers won’t find her relatable, this book is just so captivating.

Where The World Turns Wild by Nicola Penfold is published on 6th February 2020 by Stripes Publishing. There are few who will help them but some firm friends and rebels working secretly provide the final pieces for their escape. Might it be the fact they came into the city from the Wild, perhaps with a resistance to the ticks that have decimated the population? Juniper and Bear live with their grandmother and have grown up closer to nature than most as she runs one of the few greenhouses in the city.One of my favourite things about it is that although it’s a completely new world, there are still references to what it used to be with place names and landmarks that readers would recognise. Knowing they need to say final goodbyes to their home and only family they have really known, the night they leave is emotional and fraught with danger of getting caught.

I loved Ghost, who stays with Juniper and Bear throughout their journey and is a constant source of hope and comfort. I could feel them breathing in cleaner air and seeing animals they’d only ever known via forbidden books coming to life before their eyes. Author Luke Palmer introduces his new book, Play (Firefly Press) about four boys growing up together, the challenges, the friendships, and what hap. The relationship between Juniper and Bear is wonderfully captured, and Juniper is fiercely protective of her little brother.It didn’t hurt that it’s published by Little Tiger Group, one of my favourite children and YA publishers. When Abbot commands Bear’s blood is tested while Juniper is on a school outing to The Plant House, it’s obvious the time has come for the sister and brother to leave Portia Steel’s city. I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. It's necessary and important, but also extremely well written, with wonderful characters and a gripping plot.

Juniper Greene lives in a walled city from which nature has been banished, following the outbreak of a deadly man-made disease. Bookwagon recommends Where the World Turns Wild to readers who seek inspiration, information, wonder and danger.This makes them a target for the authorities, who want answers and makes them different to the other children. But when scientists discover the siblings are key to a merciless plan, their escape becomes more than that. There is nothing that is impossible to believe in this story; no extraordinary technology or huge advances, and that is what makes it so powerful. The story follows two children who leave a protected, walled city to venture through the wild world beyond on a brave adventure.