Sally Gardner
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You may remember a while ago a post called Michael Morpurgo- if not please take a look! That post was about when Michael Morpurgo came to do a talk at my school. Another author has given a talk recently so I thought that I would write about it.
Sally Gardner was a really inspirational speaker because she spoke lots about dyslexia. She revealed that she herself was dyslexic and that she had not had support at school. She had been expelled many times for not being able to read properly. Sally Gardner has done so well in her career which just proves that if you persevere, you can do anything. She had a really interesting way of describing the brain. She used a picture of a brain. Half of it was the working side and the other side was the creative side. The working side did things like reading, spelling, remembering and working whereas the creative side was things like imagination and sport. She said that there were bridges between the two halves but in dyslexic people, the bridges were wobbly and sometimes they couldn't work together. What I found really interesting about Sally's talk was that she said that she was always asked how she writes and her reply would always be "on my laptop". The people would try again and ask questions like: so you have a ghost writer...so you have a word interpretation program...so you have a voice recognition program. No-one would believe that she wrote on her own on a laptop until she wrote her book- Maggot Moon. It was only then that people believed her to actually be a writer.
She talked a lot about one of her newer books called 'The Door that Led to Where". Without giving away too much, the book is about a boy called
AJ Flynn who has just failed all but one of his GCSEs. His future is looking very bad. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change. When he was tidying up the archive one day, AJ found an old key mysteriously labelled with his name and date of birth and he becomes determined to find the door that fits the key. And so he begins a journey back to 1830 where the streets of modern Clerkenwell are replaced with cobbles and carts, and the law can be twisted to suit a villain's means. Although life in 1830 is cheap, AJ and his friends quickly find that their own lives have much more value. They've gone from sad youth statistics to young men with purpose and at the heart of everything lies a crime that only they can solve. But with enemies all around, can they unravel the mysteries of the past, before it unravels them? It is a really good book. I have read it and would really recommend it!
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You may remember a while ago a post called Michael Morpurgo- if not please take a look! That post was about when Michael Morpurgo came to do a talk at my school. Another author has given a talk recently so I thought that I would write about it.
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She talked a lot about one of her newer books called 'The Door that Led to Where". Without giving away too much, the book is about a boy called
AJ Flynn who has just failed all but one of his GCSEs. His future is looking very bad. So when he is offered a junior position at a London law firm he hopes his life is about to change. When he was tidying up the archive one day, AJ found an old key mysteriously labelled with his name and date of birth and he becomes determined to find the door that fits the key. And so he begins a journey back to 1830 where the streets of modern Clerkenwell are replaced with cobbles and carts, and the law can be twisted to suit a villain's means. Although life in 1830 is cheap, AJ and his friends quickly find that their own lives have much more value. They've gone from sad youth statistics to young men with purpose and at the heart of everything lies a crime that only they can solve. But with enemies all around, can they unravel the mysteries of the past, before it unravels them? It is a really good book. I have read it and would really recommend it!
Bye!
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