Library News
58!!! 345!!!
Registrations Books read
We have met the Challenge!!!!
As of today, we have 58 Year 7-10 students registered and reading as part of the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge. We are so excited to have exceeded our College goal of having 50 students register!
We are so delighted for, and proud of, all of our Years 7-10 students who have registered for the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge and between them read a total of 345 books - well on our way to 500 books read by 17 September!
Special congratulations to Isabelle Chapman from Yr 7 and Kaylea Blake from Yr 8, who join Lila Mahoney from Yr 7, Beau Goulding from Yr 8 and Imogen McMaugh from Yr 10, in completing the Challenge by reading at least 15 books.
All Yrs 7-10 students are eligible can email Mrs Bush cbush@sje.vic.edu.au to register - it’s not too late. Students can look in the Library catalogue at SIMON/ Student link/ Library catalogue for books identified with a blue PRC icon. There is also a display of PRC books in the Library.
Questions? Email library@sje.vic.edu.au
For more about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge go to https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/default.aspx
Pic. source: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/events/prc/PRC2020schoolsbadge.jpg.jpg
Read digital books or audiobooks free!
Access a large collection of digital books to read, or listen to, for free!
Go to SIMON/ Student links/ Library Catalogue/ Sora tab and follow the instructions.
Problems? Email library@sje.vic.edu.au
Thank you Ms Lonsdale and welcome Ms Gates
Thank you to Ms Lonsdale, who has recently been working part-time in the College Library, as well as in Archives Management. Ms Lonsdale is now working exclusively in Archives Management, and we thank her for contribution to the operation of the College Library.
Ms Gates is our new part-time Library team member and comes to us from St. Bede’s College Library, Mentone. Welcome Ms Gates!
The SJC Parent/Carer Library is being organised!
Parents and Carers of our students will soon be able to borrow from the entire Library collection, including new titles from the Senior Fiction and Non-fiction sections. This service will be available soon after we all return to school.
Pic. source: daytonparentmagazine.com
New from Lamont
Lamont Books is a 100% Australian, family owned and operated business, and is Victoria's largest school library supplier, as well as supplying books to schools throughout Australia.
Each month we receive a selection of books through Lamont for our collection.
If you would like to borrow any of these books during lockdown please email library@sje.vic.edu.au and we will arrange for it to be left at the front office for collection.
This month’s titles include:
A moving #LoveOzYA novel about loss, first love and being there for your family, no matter what. Sixteen-year-old Jamie lives with his mum and his younger brother Oscar, who has Down syndrome. Though Jamie is still grieving the loss of his dad, life starts to look up when he meets Zara, the new girl at school. When their mum goes away for the weekend, Jamie volunteers to look after Oscar.
Bridget 'Bee' Ballentine is 12 and starting her first year of high school in the beach suburb Crescent Bay. Still reeling from the departure of her mother for an ashram in India, Bee talks to Buddha and begs for her first period not to arrive. She's not ready to become a woman yet, whatever that means. Although Bee's yet to find her tribe at school, her best friend forever is surfer Leon McKay, also known as the hottest boy in Year Eight.
Winner of the 2020 Text Prize. A humorous and poignant middle-grade story about a young boy grappling with guilt after stealing from the local church...And then, when he discovers that the mudcod in the old bath in the backyard - the fish he'd caught in the river in the rainforest - are the rainfish of local legend, he becomes convinced that he is responsible for the terrible rainstorms and floods that devastate the town.
Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fire. Now permanently scarred, Scarlett has become a smudge in her perfect world. She can see only one acceptable solution: to escape the modern world for Matilda Mountain, which is desolate, isolated, forlorn. Perfect.
Magic, mystery and darkness - a gripping fantasy adventure for lovers of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. In this page-turning debut, one girl must figure out why she is the key to two worlds, before time itself falls under the control of the powerful and the greedy.
A historical fantasy adventure for teens set between Victorian London and a darker parallel city.
Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves – which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good looking.) And that’s not all that’s strange.