Library Bytes
Term One - It's A Wrap!
As we reach the end of Term 1, we take a moment to reflect and celebrate the many exciting events that have taken place. This term, we've witnessed fantastic participation in library activities, including Harmony Week, World Poetry Day - featuring the creative Blackout Poetry session and our Wednesday Makerspace events. Each of these has been an opportunity for creativity, connection and fun. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make Term 1 such a memorable success!
Harmony Week Poetry Competition Winners
Thank you to all the students who entered our Harmony Week Poetry Competition - "What Harmony Means to Me". We had some amazing entries and would like to Congratulate Alice V. in Year 8 and Jeremiah L. in Year 9 for their outstanding poems.
Blackout Poetry - World Poetry Day
March 21st, 2025
To celebrate World Poetry Day, the library with Ms Donoghue hosted a special event Blackout Poetry - a form of found poetry created by taking an existing text, such as a newspaper or book and erasing or blacking out sections to highlight certain words or phrases, thereby forming a new poem from the remaining fragments. The students very much enjoyed this activity.
Look What's New in Term 2!
In Term 2 we will welcome back weekly sessions of Chess Club - this will take place at lunchtimes on Tuesdays.
Makerspace Wednesday
Each Wednesday at lunchtime, we have our Makerspace activities running - please see the Term Planner below.
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New Books!!!
Insomniacs After School
Graphic Novel Series 1-8 By : Makoto Ojiro
Two sleepless teenagers
find kinship as they escape to their school’s astronomy observatory. Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He discovers that the school observatory, once used by the now-defunct astronomy club, may be the perfect place for a nap—but he’s not alone. Fellow insomniac Isaki Magari is willing to share the observatory with Nakami and a friendship between the two begins as they bond over the most unlikely of things.
The Majorly Awkward BFF Dramas of Lottie Brooks
By: Katie Kirby
From hilarious bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new Lottie Brooks story. Lottie Brooks is BACK and she's as BRILLIANT as ever! At long last Lottie and Daniel are an official couple and everything seems to be going super well (except for Amber being increasingly mean and jealous, but what's new there?). Amber decides it's ludicrous that Lottie has a boyfriend and she doesn't so she decides to hand out applications forms at school and audition the most eligible Batchelors for the role. Jess also decides to reveal to the rest of the group that she might be gay and that she might also have a crush on someone at school.
Meanwhile Toby's new year's resolution is to get a dog and for once Lottie and him see eye to eye, in fact the whole Brooks family are in agreement (except mum). Eventually they break mum down - enter the lovable cockapoo Pot Noodle who is lots of fun but VERY naughty and VERY destructive.
Lottie soon finds having a new boyfriend and a new dog means she has little time for anyone else, leaving the Queens of Eight Green pretty upset. How is Lottie meant to keep everybody happy and stop Pot Noodle from pooing on the carpet?!
The Land of Lost Things
By: Andy Griffiths
Remember when we went looking for my lost lucky rabbit's foot and we ended up getting lost ourselves in the Land of Lost Things? What? You don't remember? But that was one of our most exciting-and confusing-adventures ever! Let me remind you how it all happened . . .
The Midwatch
By: Judith Rossell
Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers there’s more to the Midwatch than meets the eye … The city shimmers with jewels and secrets and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.
Three Wild Dogs
By: Markus Zusak
In this poignant, funny and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family’s adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs—a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of animals family. There’s a madman dog beside me and the hounds of memory ahead of us . . . It’s love and beasts and wild mistakes and regret, but never to change things. What happens when the Zusak family opens their home to three big, wild, street-hardened dogs—Reuben, more wolf than hound; Archer, blond, beautiful, destructive; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm? The answer can only be chaos: There are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property damages, injuries, hospital visits, wellness checks, pure comedy, shocking tragedy and carnage that must be read to be believed. There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love—and the joy and recognition of family. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth) is a tender, motley and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty—but also the visceral truth of the natural world—straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.
State Library of Victoria Events
Ned Kelly Exhibition
Time: Until 31 December 2026
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Cost: Free
Location:Redmond Barry Reading Room
State Library Victoria
Australia’s most notorious bushranger has split public opinion for more than a century – Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly is a criminal who robbed and killed to some, but a heroic underdog to others.
The display of Kelly’s armour asks provocative questions about truth, myth and nationhood.
Newsworthy at the Library
Explore the Library’s newspaper collection and hone your research skills in this hands-on Library workshop.
In the session, you will tour the Newspaper and Family History Reading Rooms and view some historical archival newspapers from the 19th and 20th century before participating in a demonstration of the most popular newspaper databases.
Bring your questions and have them answered during the session.
Date : 17 April 2025
Time : 10:30am–12:30pm
Location : Meet in Hansen Hall
Book here:
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/newsworthy-onsite#eventbrite
Cost: Free
Kingston Libraries
Isobelle Carmody Author Talk
Join Isobelle Carmody, one of Australia's celebrated fantasy authors, for an author talk. Known for her Obernewtyn Chronicles, Carmody began writing the series at just fourteen, launching her into the world of speculative fiction.
Her latest novel, Comes the Night (October 2024), is set in a domed future Canberra, exploring themes of fear, societal control and personal sacrifice.
Don’t miss the chance to hear Carmody discuss her writing process and the powerful themes in her work.
Date: Monday, 28 April 2025
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Parkdale Library, 96 Parkers Road, Parkdale 3192
Free, bookings required
Book here:
Frankston Library
FrankTALK with Jane Caro
Join one of Australia’s most respected writers and social commentators, Jane Caro, in conversation at Frankston library. Jane Caro AM, an award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, feminist and public education activist was awarded the B&T Women in Media Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023.
She has published thirteen books, including the bestselling novel The Mother. Lyrebird is her second novel for adults.
This is a FREE event, however bookings are essential due to limited places.
Date: Monday, 07 April 2025
Time: 1.00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Frankston Library
60 Playne Street
Frankston
Book here:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/franktalk-with-jane-caro-tickets-1248766226399?aff=oddtdtcreator
Are you cleaning out your Lego?
Our collection of Lego is growing and I would like to take this opportunity to say a massive "Thank You" to all those who have donated so far. It has been an amazing response and we are always grateful for any donations. "One can never have too much Lego!"
Yvonne McLure
Library Manager