Young Readers
Sunday 5th April 2020
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh, 2 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh EH7 5JH
10.55am
11am
Our Young Readers book group is aimed at those aged 8-12yrs. This is a group for young people who have started developing their own reading interests. You will get to talk about what you’re reading, meet other young readers and read new things! There may also be biscuits…
Our April book is Lightning Mary by Anthea Simmons. A dramatic and moving account of a real person in history, fighting to pursue her dream of being a scientist at a time when opportunities did not exist for girls with such ambitions. The only survivor of a group of villagers struck by lightning, Mary Anning grows up an outsider. Poor and unpopular, she faces danger in order to feed her family, hunting for fossils and ancient treasures. ‘Ordinary is what most people are and I am not. I am not ordinary at all. I am a scientist.’
The Young Readers book group will meet on the first Sunday of every month.