#emily barr

Be yourself. If you’re difficult or weird or strange or funny, that’s OK. That’s you, Flora. The person you are now, with all your imperfections and all your difficulties- the person who can be a total pain in the arse, who causes her parents to tear her hair out, who wrote adorable wild emails, who fell in love with a boy on a Cornish beach and followed him to the end of the Earth- that’s you.

The one memory of Flora Banks / Emily Barr

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Flora is seventeen, and has Anterograde Amnesia, which she gets when doctors removed a tumour from her brain at the age of ten. She lives with her parents in Cornwall, and although she doesn’t remember, life is OK. That’s until she kisses a boy called Drake at a party- and she REMEMBERS. Read this fascinating book and see through Flora’s eyes, and for that time you are her; you read her story again and again. Flora is a beautifully independent character. And she is brave. 5/5

Green

-Think Twice / Sarah Mlynowski: wild and inventive 4/5

-The Maze Runner / James Dashner: my besties favourite 3/5

-Emerald Star / Jacqueline Wilson: dramatic and bold 4/5

-The one memory of Flora Banks / Emily Barr: brave and wonderful 5/5

-The sin eaters daughter / Melinda Salisbury: thrilling and brilliant

-Blue Lily, Lily Blue / Maggie Stiefvater: My favourite from trc