Library Bytes
Book Week 2019
Book Week activities will run from Monday 19th to Friday 23rd August in the library.
Students will have the opportunity to be involved in an array of activities including:
* Quiz hunts
* Indulging in International films
* participation in the reading corner story time
* Superhero photo selfies
* DEAR (Drop Everything and Read)
* Kahootz
Heaps of prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd winners from canteen vouchers to lucky dips and more!
Reading Challenge Update
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge lunchtime sessions continue in the Library, where everyone shares ideas, recommendations and popcorn.
An opportunity to nurture imagination and a fierce competition to be the top reader.
Sessions run on Wednesdays.
Book Blurbs
New Fiction in our collection this month include:
Sensitive by Allayne Webster
When thirteen-year-old Samantha moves to a new town, she decides to reinvent herself. She wants to be called SJ now. She is going to be cool and mysterious. But above all, she is going to pretend to be healthy.
SJ suffers from chronic eczema and allergies – she’s sick of doctors’ appointments and tests, sick of itchiness and pain, sick of looking different, feeling different. All SJ wants is to be ‘normal’. She’ll do whatever it takes to keep her illness a secret. After all, would new friend Livvy or cute boy Sam still want to hang out
Mindcull by K H Canobi
One for dystopian lovers!
Who can you trust when nothing is as real as virtual reality? In a time when nothing is as real as virtual reality, sixteen-year-old Eila is shortlisted in a competition by a global technology giant. But then law enforcement officers force her to spy for them, underground activists reveal a murderous plot and someone uses virtual reality to fill her head with a stranger’s thoughts. Amid secrets, lies and distortions, Eila must decide how far she will go to protect innocent lives
Change of Heart by Nova Weetman
A contemporary pick-a-path series about life, first crushes and friendship, that lets the reader choose how the story goes!
Mackenzie loves her life in the city. She’s in a band with her bestie, she’s just met a cute boy called Toby, and she doesn’t mind moving between her parents’ places each week. But then her mum decides to move away, and everything changes…
1. When Mack moves to the country with her mum, she starts hanging out with music-mad Laura… and drifting apart from her old best friend, Immy. Are they destined to lose their friendship, especially when Mack’s old band is playing without her?
2. When Mack decides to live with her dad in the city, she has to put up with his control-freak girlfriend moving in too! But maybe the upcoming Battle of the Bands competition – and getting to know the adorable Toby – will be enough of a distraction…
You choose Mack’s path with lots of conflicting storylines.
Little Stones by Elizabeth Kuiper
Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe. It's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, food shortages and government corruption. Yet Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a meal, and lives in a big house with her mum and their Shona housekeeper. Hannah is wealthy, she is healthy and she is white. But money can't always keep you safe.
As the political situation becomes increasingly unstable and tensions within Hannah's family escalate, her sheltered life is threatened. She is forced to question all that she's taken for granted, including where she belongs.
When the ground is hard by Malla Nunn
Adele loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school will be great with her best friend Delia at her side. Then Delia dumps her for a new girl with more money, and Adele is forced to share a room with Lottie, the school pariah, who doesn't pray and defies teachers' orders.
As they share a copy of Jane Eyre, Lottie's gruff exterior and honesty grow on Adele, and together they take on bullies and protect each other from the vindictive and prejudiced teachers. When a boy goes missing on campus, Adele and Lottie must work together to solve the mystery, in the process learning the true meaning of friendship.
Land of Fences by Mark Smith
Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast - more than surviving - they’re enjoying the surf, the summer and being together. And now, the lights of Wentworth mean life could soon be back to normal. Finn is cautiously optimistic, but Kas knows she can never escape her status as a Siley, and that a return to slavery is a very real possibility.
She’s nervous. And it turns out she’s right to be. When Kas is captured and taken inside the fences, Finn faces his greatest challenge yet. Land of Fences is the compelling third and final novel in Mark Smith’s highly acclaimed action-packed trilogy that began with The Road to Winter
Pirate Boy of Sydney by Jackie French
<div style="text-align: left;">Twelve-year-old Ben Huntsmore is the son of a shipowner, an only child who loves the farming life on his mother's family estate, Badger's Hill. But when Ben's father loses their ancestral home in 1809 as payment for a gambling debt, Ben reluctantly joins him in a desperate venture to win it back, capturing enemy trading ships off the west Australian coast.</div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div>
While at sea, Ben must face not just the giant waves of the Southern Ocean but also the guns of a Dutch ship, along with unexpected treachery. And only the friendships of the mysterious convict Higgins and the young Indigenous sailor Guwara will help Ben survive, as well as show him the true meaning of loyalty and riches.
A book filled with swashbuckling adventures and which uncovers Australia's hidden history as a pirate port and slavers' den.
Mrs Patricia Bernardo
Library Manager