Library
The Year 7 Readers’ Cup competition is just around the corner! The teams are now working hard on their book trailers (to be submitted to library staff by the end of lunchtime on Monday 12th May), and in the final stages of reading all three books so that they are ready for the competition on Friday 16th May, during periods 1 and 2.
The final teams for Readers’ Cup are:
7A (team 1): Isabella Bingham, Caitlyn Boyce, Victor Buscailhon, William Edwards, and Sid Prabhu as emergency
7A (team 2): Zhuge Subekti, Ryan Finley, Euan Shields, and Muhammad Siddiqui
7B: Alice Farran and Paige Speare
7E: Chelsea McDougall and Xav Mangan
7G: Charlotte Neely, Tyler Vance, and Flynn Wagner
Combined team 7M & 7N: Arjun Gurtu with Lenny Mierla, Cailin Neely, and Emma Nye
7P: Eliza Breen, Sam Castro, Avery Harmon, and Liam Sydenham
7R: Claire Speare, Matilda Singleton, and Mae Jackman
7V: Luna Pereira, Eva Hunt, and Hannah Godfrey
The Regular Readers Raffle will be held again this term! Be seen reading in the library at least three times (outside of classtime) to go into the prize draw at the end of term. There are Caf vouchers and lollies to be won!
There are new additions to our AudioBook ePlatform:
- The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games prequel) by Suzanne Collins
- We’ll always have summer (The summer I turned pretty #3) by Janner Han
Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar #3) by A.F. Steadman
The books listed are also available on our bookshelves.
Book of the Week
Nancy Wake
by Peter FitzSimons
Nancy Wake is one of Australia’s most famous war heroes.
Nancy grew up in Sydney in the 1920’s and travelled to Europe as a young woman, settling in France in the years before the outbreak of the Second World War. Nancy worked as a journalist for many years, so she witnessed and reported on the rise of Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy – experiences which led her to joining a Special Operations unit in Britain and fighting alongside the French Resistance guerilla fighters in France later in the war. Her deeds made her a valued target of the Gestapo, who dubbed her ‘the White Mouse’.
Peter FitzSimons writes an excellent biography of Nancy – it is easy to follow the events that happened and a joy to read – you come away feeling as if you met Nancy in real life. FitzSimons sheds great detail on Nancy’s early life, her experiences as a young journalist living the bohemian life in Paris during the 1930’s, her activities with the French Resistance in the early days of the war, and how she became a trained Special Operative and important (and sometimes feared) organiser of the ‘Maquisard’ (French Resistance guerillas).
This is an excellent story of an Australian’s experience in the Second World War, and a fantastic resource for anyone curious about Nancy Wake or about Australians involved in war.
Susan Winfield