Library
The Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge will open soon! The challenge is open to students in Years 7 to 10, and those who sign-up are required to read at least 15 books by early September. Students who complete the Challenge are given a pizza lunch and go into a draw to win a Dymocks gift voucher later in the year. Ask a library staff member how to sign up – we’ve already had 15 students sign-up this year!
Students can access our vast eBooks and eAudiobooks collection from home via the LibGuides homepage by using this link: https://libguides.bhs.vic.edu.au/home. Look for the icon below, and on the right:
There is also an app available to download to your phone or tablet/iPad so that you can read or listen to books wherever you are.
You can borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks for up to 2 weeks. Click on “Save for later” if you’re not ready to borrow the item yet – this will save them to your “Saved Titles List”. eBooks also contain features that make them dyslexic-friendly – you can change the text font, text spacing, and background colour.
Many of the school texts are available on the ePlatform. Of course these don’t take the place of print books, which still need to be purchased.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask a library staff member!
(The ePlatform dashboard)
There are new additions to our eAudioBook ePlatform:
Good girl, bad blood (Good Girl series #2) by Holly Jackson
Wandering wild by Lynette Noni
Northern lights (His dark materials series #1) by Philip Pullman
Restore me (Shatter Me series #4) by Tahereh Mafi
The books listed are also available on our bookshelves.
Book of the Week
CHERUB 1: The recruit
by Robert Muchamore
A recently orphaned teenage boy is recruited to a secret branch of MI5 in this thrilling series.
Fifteen-year-old James Adams ends up in foster care after his mum dies. He is soon befriended by a boy named Kyle, who offers him the choice to continue a normal life or work for the secret service until he turns eighteen.
Jumping at the chance to become a super cool spy, James arrives at CHERUB (Charles Henderson’s Espionage Research Unit B), a secret base for teenage spies in the English countryside and soon realises that training to become a secret agent is lot harder than he thought. Going out on bona fide missions prove to be even tougher, and James’ first mission as a full-fledged spy proves to be more dangerous than anyone expected.
CHERUB is a fantastic series, filled with great characters, and loaded with humour and action. I cannot recommend this series enough – you will wish it was all true!
Susan Winfield