This book is a must-read for anyone at high school. I devoured it in two days.
I have never read any books by this author before but I am going to find all her others now!
The story is about Paige who is a year 11 girl who is on the school newspaper. She is very shy, she has no friends and her older brother has just gone off to university. Paige is a really good watcher and she sees everything that happens. She sees how the kids are cruel to the weaker children and what they do. She hates it. She doesn’t want them to get away with it, so she keeps a record of everything she sees in notebooks which she keeps under her bed. But she never says a word because she is scared they will then turn on her. Paige has learnt to blend into the background, to not be noticed by anyone, which she thinks is the best way to survive high school and her home life, which is another story altogether!
However, one day she spots some red pen in a school library book and writes her own comment underneath....‘I exist’. This is the start of a whole rollercoaster of events that will change her life and change her.
I honestly could not put this book down. It was super fantastic, gripping, it really felt like it was written about some of the things that happen at my school. I really really recommend anyone to read this. I ended up hugging the book to myself at the end.
The best book I have read this year. Thank you Holly Bourne.
Whilst the cover is very bright and colourful, this book isn’t always super cheery, in the best way possible. Of course there are sweet moments of fun sprinkled throughout, but some of the main themes are quite a bit darker.
Whilst the cover is very bright and colourful, this book isn’t always super cheery, in the best way possible. Of course there are sweet moments of fun sprinkled throughout, but some of the main themes are quite a bit darker. The Yearbook is about drama at school, but it’s also about why you may act the way you do at school; how your life is affected by what your home is like; why you are the way you are.
The Yearbook follows Paige in her last year of secondary school. As someone who feels invisible, ever being seen is scary to her, usually being just an excuse for someone to tell her who she is, instead of understanding her. With the help of mysterious red annotations in her library books, she starts her journey to reclaiming her story, and telling it herself.
A great read, very relatable, very realistic to senior schools.
The Yearbook is fantastic I found it really relatable, the characters were so realistic especially Paige. As soon as I picked it up I was hooked and I got into it straight away.
I enjoyed the storyline and the plot twists. And would recommend this book for anyone that goes to senior school as it is set in the school environment and many people will go through the same things she does.