{"id":7150,"date":"2022-12-08T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2022-12-09T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:31:40","slug":"sarah-moore-fitzgerald-joins-us-for-the-big-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/?p=7150","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Moore Fitzgerald joins us for The Big Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Y7 students celebrated Big Read Week with an author event with the prize-winning Irish author, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald who visited us to promote her latest book, The Shark and the Scar.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Moore Fitzgerald talks to year 7\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-007-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah\u2019s new book is a dark and gripping thriller with a twist that even the sharpest reader just won\u2019t see coming. It\u2019s a big-hearted story of lies, family secrets, surfing\u2026and shark attacks.\u00a0 Sarah also read from another recent book, All the Money in the World, a superb rags to riches story about kindness and friendship.\u00a0 Our students had so many questions for Sarah that the session flew over but not before Sarah had shared her creative writing tips and some brilliant reading recommendations. \u00a0 The book signing queue stretched right around the Biome after the event, proof of just how popular Sarah and her books are with our students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As well as being a writer, Sarah is a University lecturer in Psychology and Education in Dublin and was full of praise for our school:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis was a truly wonderful, life-affirming visit and such a lovely way to end the tour.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was fantastic to get that warm welcome from all of your brilliant students who had so many interesting questions. This is my third visit to CLV, a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hugely creative learning environment where students are readers and teachers are superb.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to Hachette Publishers for funding the visit and to Forum Books for organising books for sale and signing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Moore Fitzgerald talks to year 7\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cramlingtonlv.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AuthorVisit-020-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y7 students celebrated Big Read Week with an author event with the prize-winning Irish author, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald who visited us to promote her latest book, The Shark and the Scar.\u00a0\u00a0 Sarah\u2019s new book is a dark and gripping thriller with a twist that even the sharpest reader just won\u2019t see coming. 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