Library
The Year 7 Readers’ Cup competition will take place during periods 1 and 2 on Thursday 28th May in the library.
The current teams are as follows:
7A (two teams) – Hamish Goodin, Bevan Washington, Lucy Thomas, Leo Pena Rix, Lucas Creighton, Rayan Hamzaki, Ryan Johnson, with Anoushka Arvind, and Anna Nguyen as emergencies
7B – Ella Penny-Ryan, Luna Govan, and Harper Arandt
7G – Harper (Sam) Anderson, Nadia Amusa, and Zivah Reid
7M – Rory Booth, Harry Neall, Helius Pereira, and Mia Ebner
7N – Micah Barrie, Joshua James, and Willoughby Whitford
7P – Rumana Horrow, Will Riccardo, Nash Harper, and Mia Zheng
7R – Mitchell Windsor, Norah Wright, and Cooper Airey
7S – Ava Kriss, Maxi Appleton, Maya Molloy, Isabelle Parrot, and Patrick O’Connor
There are new additions to our eAudioBook ePlatform:
P.S I still love you (To all the boys series) by Jenny Han
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
The dry by Jane Harper
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
The books listed are also available on our bookshelves.
Book of the Week
Deadly Animals
by Marie Tierney
13-year-old Ava likes to collect bodies. She likes to study how they decompose before giving them a respectful burial.
Growing up near a busy motorway provides Ava with an endless number of bodies – dogs, cats, foxes. But one day she finds the body of a boy she knows from school and soon many the bodies of animals she finds appear to have been deliberately killed – they haven’t died in accidents or from disease, but at the hands of something, or someone.
When the bodies of two other boys are found it becomes obvious that there is a serial killer stalking the community and Ava, with her friend John, is determined to track them down. Leading the police investigation is Detective Seth Delahaye, a kind and patient man who recognises Ava’s unique intelligence and enlists her help.
Deadly Animals is an intriguing thriller with an extraordinary lead character who is very easy to fall in love with and admire and has an eerie and well-written setting. It is a very satisfying mystery-thriller, recommended to us by a current student at BHS.
Susan Winfield