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NEW BOOKS....(and so many more available!)

Lucy's Dawn, By Juliet Blair.

Summary: 'Today has been the most important day of my life. I still don't know whether to laugh or cry. This is how it all began ...' Fourteen-year-old Lucy's life changes when she starts working in Louisa Lawson's printery, where only girls and women are employed. But it's the 1880's and the male printers elsewhere think that this work should be for men only. So they decide to make the girls' lives difficult! Lucy has many battles ahead but, in the process, she realises who her real friends are -- and finds her first love.

If I Tell You, By Alicia Tuckerman.

Summary: The day I fell for Phoenix Stone, there was no warning. She shattered the world I knew. This is a story about being seventeen and growing up in rural Australia. Falling in love for the first time, following your dreams and disappointing your parents. Being brave enough to live your life, even when life is terrifying. In fear there is bravery. You can either cling to the edge or have the courage to jump. But what do you do when you're left spiralling through the free-fall?

Tin Heart, By Shivaun Plozza.

Summary: When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants is to thank her donor's family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she'll discover who she is if she's no longer The Dying Girl. But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan warrior for a mother and an all-out war with the hot butcher's apprentice next door, Marlow's life is already pretty complicated. And her second chance is about to take an unexpected turn.

Through My Eyes: Lyla, By Fleur Beale.

Summary: A powerful and moving story about one girl caught up in the Christchurch earthquake in 2011. Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it's not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished -- it's friends and acquaintances too. As the earth keeps shaking day after day, can Lyla find a way to cope with her new reality.

Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Cobram Secondary College is excited to be participating.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 7 September 2018.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. 

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, click the link below.

To sign up or for more information please see Melissa in the library.