Library News
Winner of the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award – Praiseworthy
Last week, Alexis Wright, a 73-year-old Waanji writer from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel, Praiseworthy. In winning this year’s award, Alexis received $60,000 in prize money and joined a distinguished group of two-time winners including Michelle de Kretser, Kim Scott, Thomas Keneally and Patrick White. Alexis won the 2007 award for her novel, Carpentaria.
On winning the award, Wright told the judges: “I am both amazed and humbled to win the 2024 Miles Franklin Award for Praiseworthy. To win a Miles Franklin a second time is monumental. I wanted to make Praiseworthy a big book in more ways than one. I wanted to capture the spirit of our times.”
The literary award was established through the will of My Brilliant Career author, Stella Miles Franklin, for the “advancement, improvement and betterment of Australian literature,” the Miles Franklin Literary Award recognises a novel of “the highest literary merit” that presents “Australian life in any of its phases.”
Graphic Novels for readers 12-17 Years Old
New to our library are these much-anticipated graphic novels ready for student loan. The Recruit is the first book in Muchamore's CHERUB series in graphic novel form.
The back cover reads: “A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home, and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB.
CHERUB agents live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.
For official purposes, these children do not exist”
CHERUB kids continue to go undercover in CLASS A pictured here.
Stormbreaker, the graphic novel version of the book by Anthony Horowitz, is also new to our collection of graphic novels. Books by author Horowitz are very popular amongst our students, where his central character 14-year-old Alex Rider is recruited into M16 and transforms from schoolboy to superspy within days.
New Books
Life Lessons from Legends
This series of new books to our library include powerful quotes from each sporting legend and takes a biographical look at their upbringing, charting their career path including hard-earned lessons and providing inspiration for our students' own path to excellence.
When We Are Invisible & The Sky So Heavy
The library has also acquired copies of Claire Zorn’s; ‘When We Are Invisible’, the most requested novel from our Year 8 students and the sequel to their class novel ‘The Sky So Heavy’, a novel many of the students have thoroughly enjoyed reading.
Library & Information Week 2024
Last week, libraries around Australia celebrated Library & Information Week. The 2024 theme ‘Roots of Democracy’ highlighted the ways in which libraries better inform students about the issues that directly affect them and their rights (e.g. climate change, gender equality, online safety) and provide resources which teach students about voting, citizen engagement, parliament, protests and ensuring that students are media literate.
Book Club 2024
Come and join us in the library if you’d like to chat about the book you are reading and the latest releases in our collection. Book Club runs at lunch time every Wednesday.
All students and year levels are welcome!
Student ID Cards
A reminder to all students that your Compass Student ID card is also your library card. Please bring your student ID card to the library when you would like to borrow.
Library Opening Hours
Make your way up to S3 on the Southern level!
- Monday - Thursday
- 9.30am-2.30pm.
The library is open at recess and lunchtime.
Niamh McPhelimy
Library Manager
