Feeling glum, bored, braindead, and lazy? Do you need motivation, meaning and a message to make the most of the wonder that is life? Read on, get inspired....
	The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (2012)
	Cloud busting by Malorie Blackman (2004)
	The wild robot by Peter Brown (2016) First book in The wild robot series
	The midnight fox by Betsy Byars (1968)
	Sadako and the thousand paper cranes by Eleanor Coerr (1977)
	A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
	Out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper (2010)
	Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos (1998) First book in the Joey Pigza series
	Boy overboard by Morris Gleitzman (2002)
	Refugee  by Alan Gratz (2017)
	Ugly by Robert Hoge (2015)
	Sky hawk by Gill Lewis (2011)
	Kensuke's kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (1999)
	A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park (2010)
	The boy at the back of the class by Onjali Q. Rauf (2018)
	Esperanza rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (2000)
	Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar (1983)
	Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder (2017)
	Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor (1976) Second book in The Logan family saga series Can be read & loved without having read any previous books in this series
	Becoming Joe DiMaggio by Maria Testa (2002)
	Mr Stink by David Walliams (2009)
	Other words for home by Jasmine Warga (2019)
	George by Alex Gino (2015)
	When friendship followed me home by Paul Griffin (2016)
	The cay by Theodore Taylor (1969) First book in The cay series