From the library

All students: Now will be a good time to check if you have an overdue book or two.  If you do, please return it to any of the Neighbourhood libraries as soon as you can. We look forward to their return – and thanks for checking!

Lead the Way by Jean Hinchliffe  (Source: Booktopia accessed 9/5/22)

Want to take Action and fight for what’s right, but don’t know where to start?  This is the book for you.  This book provides the ultimate guide to activism and making systemic change, your way.  You might remember Jean, she was a key organiser of School Strikes 4 Climate and in this book she shares helpful tools and stories and things she has learnt to be a successful organiser.  

Stories of Indigenous Service 

(Source: Commonweath of Australia 2022 accessed 9/5/22

This helpful booklet comes from the Australian War Memorial which has done a lot of research and found many service people who have worked in the Defence Forces from the Boer War (when Australia went to South Africa to fight) and the First and Second World Wars.  Included is soldier Dave Arden, a Kokatha, Gunditjmara singer and songwriter, who has performed with Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter and Paul Kelly. 

Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix  - (CBCA Shortlisted Book)

For those who LOVE, love, Garth Nix, here is the latest fantasy!  This is a thrilling story of love, danger and Charter Magic that brought Sabriel’s parents together.  In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often frightening magics, eighteen-year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Source: Booktopia accessed 9/5/22

Tyenna: a novel (Source: Booktopia accessed 9/5/22)

A thrilling novel about one girl’s experience of the terrifying 2019 Tasmanian bushfires. It’s the summer holidays and Tye is staying at her grandparents’ lodge at Chancy’s Point in Tasmania’s beautiful Central Highlands.  Bush fires threaten their area and evacuation warnings are increasing until Tye is caught up in the battle of her life.  Can Tye and her close-knit community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?  And yes dear reader, there is a possible love interest, so read on ….

A Glasshouse of Stars by Shirley Marr  (CBCA Shortlisted Book)

Source: Booktopia accessed 9/5/22  Meixing Lim and her family have arrived at the New House in the New Land.  Everything is vast and unknown to Meixing.  She has called the New House ‘Big Scary’.  Meixing is off to a difficult start, she has trouble understanding the language at school and as a result, finds it hard to make friends. Her ‘safe’ place is a glasshouse in the garden which inexplicably holds the sun and the moon and the secrets of her memory and imagination.  When tragedy strikes Meixing, it will take all her bravery and imagination to find her place of belonging in this new world.