Library and Middle Years staff have been busy recruiting for the Year 7 Readers’ Cup competition. The current teams are as follows:

7A (two teams) – Hamish Goodin, Bevan Washington, Lucy Thomas, Tara Sharma, Leo Pena Rix, Lucas Creighton, Rayan Hamzaki, Ryan Johnson, Anoushka Arvind, and Anna Nguyen

7B – Ella Penny-Ryan, Luna Govan, and Harper Arandt

7G – Harper Anderson, Nadia Amusa, and Zivah Reid

7M – Rory Booth, Harry Neall, Helius Pereira, and Mia Ebner

7N – Micah Barrie, Joshua James, and Willoughby Whitford

7L – June Bone, Layla Kerr, and Ella White

7P – Rumana Horrow, Will Riccardo, Nash Harper, and Mia Zheng

7R – Mitchell Windsor, Heath Richardson, Norah Wright, Cooper Airey, and Violette Marzo as emergency

7S – Ava Kriss, Maxi Appleton, Maya Molloy, Isabelle Parrot, and Patrick O’Connor

There are new additions to our eAudioBook ePlatform:

Reaching for the moon: the autobiography of mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
Glorious rivals (The Grandest Game series) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
What have they done to Liza McLean? by Amy Doak
The case of the missing marquess by Nancy Springer

The books listed are also available on our bookshelves.

Finally, a reminder that students can access our vast eBooks and eAudiobooks collection 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.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask a library staff member!

Book of the Week

This is not the Jess Show

by Anna Carey

The year is 1998 and there’s something strange going on in the sleepy town of Swickley, NY.

Half the students in Jess’ school have come down with the flu, her family’s dog suddenly looks completely different, and she keeps hearing a strange chanting somewhere in the distance that nobody else can hear. To make matters worse, Jess has developed a crush on her childhood best friend, Ty, while another boy keeps trying to get her attention, despite her best efforts to avoid him!

Every year there seems to be another tragedy in Jess’s life or for the whole town, and this year is shaping up to be the worst yet – until Ty lets Jess in on a life-shattering secret.

Quirky, funny, and packed with nostalgia for the 90’s, This is not the Jess Show is a very entertaining read and highly recommended!

Susan Winfield

Belmont High School Newsletter

No. 5

Issue 5 · 02 Apr 2026

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