Library

We are giving away 4 Taylor Swift posters with a chocolate – to win enter the draw (inside the library) by writing your full name and form group on an entry slip and put it into the gold entries box. The draw will take place next Thursday (29th) at the start of lunchtime. 1 entry only per student, and you must be present at the draw to win. Good luck!

A reminder that students can also access our eBooks and e-Audiobook collection from home (see instructions below). Students can access our eBooks and eAudiobooks by using this link: https://belmonths.wheelers.co/. They can also go to SharePoint and click on this icon: 

This will take them to the library catalogue. Then look for the ePlatform icon (below): 

Students can also access our eBooks and eAudiobooks from the LibGuides homepage. Look for the icon below: 

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 for up to 3 weeks, 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”. 

(The ePlatform dashboard)

New additions to our audiobook collection include: 

101 Amazing Facts about Squid Game by Merlin Mill 

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer  by Amy Doak 

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba 

Book of the Week

The Letterbox Tree

by Rebecca Lim & Kate Gordon

Bea and Nyx are living in the same place at different times. In the Bea’s time, climate change is a visible, but distant threat. In Nyx’s time, human life is becoming more and more fraught with danger – with long droughts, fires, and human society is beginning to disintegrate. 

The families of both girls want to move away from Tasmania, but Bea and Nyx want to stay in the place they call home. Especially when they discover that they can communicate with each other by leaving notes inside the hollow of their favourite tree. 

As Nyx’s world begins to fall apart, Bea desperately tries to make a difference, but she discovers that it takes more than one person to save the future. 

The Letterbox Tree is a thought-provoking story about how our actions have consequences, even if we can’t see it happening in the present, and how to have hope for the future. 

Susan Winfield