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Books of the Decade

The Wishing Shelf Book Award has now been running for TEN YEARS. To celebrate this, we have announced SIX Best Books of the Decade from our PAST Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Winners. You will find the books listed below. The readers in our Reading Groups think they are WONDERFUL!

Best Book from the Last Ten Years

Category 1

The Snark, Justin Davis, ill. by Stephanie Jayne

Category 2


Baby Worries, Frances Mackay, ill by Dotti Colvin

Category 3


Shadow Jumper, J M Forster

Category 4


Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall, Rae Knightly

Category 5


The Poison Keeper, Deborah Swift

Category 6


Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America, Katrina Shawver

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Irish Famine Novel
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CALM POND
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for 5 - 9 year olds
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There's a Duck in the House
TWSA FINALIST 2023
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FALSE NEUTRAL
One chance to finally
make sense of it all.
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The Great Migration
Survive valley. Stop outbreak.
Or watch the kingdom burn.
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MY SHADOW
A storybook for children
of parents with epilepsy
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Nick and the Golden Apple
Familiar, unexpected,
engaging from the beginning.
Amazon