Library News
Families can borrow from the Library even though we’re remote learning
Remember if you would like a free book, digital book or audiobook to read, check out the College Library catalogue (PAM/Student links/Library catalogue), choose which book you would like, email library@sje.vic.edu.au , and we’ll take the book to the front office for collection. Just return the book to the front office when finished and we’ll pick it up. The loan period is three months, which can be easily extended by emailing library@sje.vic.edu.au
Keeping it COVID safe
In line with guidelines from the Australian School Library Association, the Victorian School Library Association and our College, the College Library observes safe work practices for the loan of resources during the Pandemic. This includes:
- All books returned are quarantined in separate shelving for the recommended period of three days after check-in and before being able to be re-loaned.
Questions? Please feel welcome to contact us T. 03 54822577 or E. library@sje.vic.edu.au
Recommendation in every newsletter for Parents and Carers
Every newsletter from now on will have a reading recommendation for parents and carers. Each recommendation will be available for loan from the College Library, either as a book, digital book or audiobook. Want it? Email library@sje.vic.edu.au
This week:
DALEY, Megan. Raising Readers.
“Some kids refuse to read, others won't stop – not even at the dinner table! Either way, many parents question the best way to support their child's literacy journey. When can you start reading to your child? How do you find that special book to inspire a reluctant reader? What can you do to keep your tween reading into their adolescent years? Award-winning teacher librarian Megan Daley, the passionate voice behind the Children's Books Daily blog, has the answers to all these questions and more. She unpacks her twenty years of experience into this personable and accessible guide, enhanced with up-to-date research and firsthand accounts from well-known Australian children's authors. It also contains practical tips, such as suggested reading lists and instructions on how to run book-themed activities. Raising Readers is a must-have resource for parents and educators to help the children in their lives fall in love with books.”
For more, got to the author’s website at
https://childrensbooksdaily.com/
“Children’s Books Daily is a place where you can be a part of a community and dive deep into a well-organised library of reviews, advice from experts in the field, reading resources, literary-themed gifts and lists of themed books.”
Digital books available from the Library Catalogue
Our students have access to digital books through our College Library catalogue. Parents and carers can go to PAM/Student links/ Library catalogue or go to the the “Wheelers”tab on the Library homepage at https://au.accessit.online/STJ34/#!dashboard. Follow the instructions to access the resources. Enjoy!!
2020 Premiers’ Reading Challenge deadline extended to 18 September
Still time for your student to conquer the Challenge. To participate in the PRC:
- Students get their personal username and password from Mrs Celine Bush, from the College Learning Enhancement Team (cbush@sje.vic.edu.au) or Library staff (library@sje.vic.edu.au).
- Go to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home
- Click on “School/Student”
- Click on “VPRC login”
- Enter Username and Password.
Each student who conquers the Challenge gets a canteen voucher and special presentation.
Lamont Standing orders : August selection
This month’s selection of Lamont Standing orders have now arrived and are available for loan on request to library@sje.vic.edu.au
They are:
Tribal Lores by Archimede Fusillo
A moving and explosive tale about what happens when tradition and the need to belong collide.
Frankie Rescio is struggling with the death of his sister. Next door, Lochie Marsh is about to have his world invaded by his estranged, pregnant half-sister and her layabout boyfriend. Despite tensions simmering just below the surface for both boys and their families, they form a bond that connects their different worlds. Until tribal lores threaten to bring everything crashing down.
The F Team by Rawah Arja
Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a football competition with his mates in order to rehabilitate the public image of their school. When the team is formed, Tariq learns there's a major catch – half of the team is made up of white boys from Cronulla, aka enemy territory – and he must compete with their strongest player for captaincy of the team.
At school Tariq thinks he has life all figured out until he falls for a new girl called Jamila, who challenges everything he thought he knew. At home, his outspoken ways have brought him into conflict with his family. Now, with complications on all fronts, he has to dig deep to control his anger, and find what it takes to be a leader.
In confronting and often hilarious situations, Tariq's relationships with his extended Lebanese family and his friends are tested like never before, and he comes to learn that his choices can have serious consequences.
Remind me why I’m here by Kat Colmer
When 18 year-old Maya leaves Chicago for a six-week Australian home stay, she assumes she’s heading to beautiful Barangaroo with its famous Sydney Harbour views—NOT Barangaroo Creek, a stinking hot, fly-ridden, wi-fi dead zone hours from a decent body of water. Add her host brother, Gus, who wishes she landed in someone else’s sheep paddock, and Maya is convinced she’s in for six weeks of Hicksville hell.
Gus has an important trip planned this summer— a trip that does NOT include helping an animal-phobic girl from the States tick off items on her seriously clichéd Aussie must-do list. So he comes up with a list of his own—one guaranteed to send Maya back across the Pacific, leaving him free to enjoy the last of his freedom before he heads off to agricultural college like every generation of his family has. But when Maya doesn’t scare that easily, sparks begin to fly.
Soon Gus and Maya discover there are hidden depths to clichéd bucket-lists and secret summer trips, and that sometimes it takes someone half a world away to remind you of all the reasons you’re here.
Rise of the Remarkables. Brasswitch and Bot by Gareth Ward
Drawn into a world of prejudice, deceit and danger, Wrench must master her powers, knowing they offer her only hope for survival… if they don't destroy the world first. Screams surge along York's narrow Victorian streets as a run-away crackle-tram races toward disaster. Fearing an accident like the one that killed her parents, Brasswitch Wrench is forced to reveal her powers – a decision that will change her life forever.
Recruited to the sinister department of Regulators who hunt down others like her, Wrench teams up with their maverick mechanical leader, Bot, as they are tasked with halting the rise of the aberration threat. Until today, being called Brasswitch would have got you killed. Now, it might save your life.
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, in a big, messy family, one teenager watches as brothers and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding.
Enter the Goddens – irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise – and the consequences will be devastating.
From bestselling, award-winning author Meg Rosoff comes a lyrical and quintessential coming-of-age tale – a summer book that's as heady, timeless and irresistible as Bonjour Tristesse and I Capture the Castle but as sharp and fresh as Normal People.
The Erasure Initiative by Lili Wilkinson
"I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong. The rumble of tyres on bitumen, and the hiss of air conditioning. The murmur of voices. The smell of air freshener. The cool vibration of glass against my forehead".
A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only nametags. There's a screen on each seatback that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life.
The acclaimed author of After the Lights Go Out returns with another compelling YA thriller - a timely novel about the intensity and unpredictability of human behaviour under pressure.