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Vermont Secondary College

Student Review

A Walk in the Dark

Book by Jane Godwin

Five Year nine kids set out into the Otway Ranges on a school overnight hike. With no adults, they must make their own way back to school before midnight. Five enter the forest but will all make it out?

A book about friends, teamwork, independence and survival. Recommended for Years 7-10.

Review by Emily N, Year 7 Hotham

Ebook and Audio book Library updates

Our ebook and Audio book library has included some wonderful new Learning Support Tools.

Using your school email and password

You can access the elibrary platform from the favourites star icon in Compass, scroll down to Library- ebooks and Audiobooks

Our interactive reading feature provides sentence structure markup, word to image depiction, translation and text to speech options. Whilst the settings wizard allows students to select their preferred font size, style and background colour to provide an experience that is unique to every reader.

Learning Support features include:

· Dyslexia Settings

· Text to Speech (TTS)

· Translation to 150+ languages

· Sentence structure mark up (highlighting nouns, verbs, adjectives etc)

· Simple image depiction of words when tapped

· Available across a wide range of eBook titles (1 million + titles)

· Supported in desktop, tablets and mobile devices