Digital books available from the Library Catalogue

Digital books can be read on your device. Our students have access to digital books through our College Library catalogue (SIMON/Student links/ Library catalogue).

To access digital books now, 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

Our College is participating in the annual Australia-wide 2020 Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC). Each student who conquers the Challenge gets a canteen voucher and special presentation. Our 2019 record was 417 books finished, and 14 students conquered the Challenge. Let’s do better in 2020!

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”

4. Click on “VPRC login”

5. Enter Username and Password

Reader’s review competition

Students can enter the PRC Reader’s Review competition by getting an entry form from the College Library and writing an interesting review of a favourite book. Great prizes! For more information go to https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/schoolscomp.aspx

children’s Book Council of Australia shortlisted books available

The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) shortlisted books for older readers have been announced and are displayed on our library homepage

https://au.accessit.online/STJ34/#!dashboard

These books have been judged to be the best in their category by the CBCA and a winner will be announced in time for the 2020 CBCA Book Week (postponed by the CBCA until October 2020). All the books are available for loan from the College Library.

This months new books from Lamont Standing order selection include

Stars Like Us Frances Chapman

From the winner of the Ampersand Prize comes this smart, swoony LGBTQ YA novel about a teenage band on the way to the top – so long as they can hold it together.

Liliana’s hitting all the wrong notes. She’s a sixteen-year-old exchange student with a secret crush on Carter, her new band’s smoking hot guitarist – but she’s also got a girlfriend back home.

So when she writes a song about him and it lands the band a record deal, she quickly realises she’s in hot water.

Soon, Liliana will have to choose – between an alluring boy and the girl she left behind, between love and lust, and between the fame that beckons and staying true to the music that’s in her heart.

With shades of hit TV series Nashville, the musical passion of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the band drama of Fleetwood Mac, this brilliant own-voices YA debut is perfect for music lovers everywhere.

When the rain turns to snow - Jane Godwin

A beautiful and timely coming-of-age story about finding out who you are in the face of crisis and change. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Fiona Wood and Emily Rodda.

A runaway, a baby and a whole lot of questions...

Lissa is home on her own after school one afternoon when a stranger turns up on the doorstep carrying a baby. Reed is on the run - surely people are looking for him? He's trying to find out who he really is and thinks Lissa's mum might have some answers. But how could he be connected to Lissa's family - and why has he been left in charge of a baby? A baby who is sick, and getting sicker ...

Reed's appearance stirs up untold histories in Lissa's family, and suddenly she is having to make sense of her past in a way she would never have imagined. Meanwhile, her brother is dealing with a devastating secret of his own.

The Lost Soul Atlas by Zana Fraillon

A powerful story of hope and friendship, from the author of The Bone Sparrow.

Loyalty is tested, and a cruel twist of fate leads to an act of ultimate betrayal in this epic story that spans a city, a decade, and the divide between life and death itself.

Twig is all alone after his dad goes missing. But when he meets Flea, a cheerful pickpocket, the pair become fast friends. Together, Twig and Flea raise themselves on the crime-ridden streets, taking what they need and giving the rest to the even-poorer. Life is good, as long as they have each other.

But then Twig wakes up in the Afterlife. With just a handful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious atlas to guide him, he tries to piece together what happened, and to find his way home . . .

The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery & illustrated by Natsko Seki

The haunting story of a promise made long ago ... a powerful novel set in contemporary Japan and also in 1945, Hiroshima, the day the nuclear bomb was so devastatingly dropped on the city.

A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is.

We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. What follows is a searing account of the blinding flash, the harrowing search for family and the devastation both human and physical. There is also the very moving and human story as the two teenage boys with great bravery search for and find Keiko, Hiro's five-year-old sister. But then Keiko is lost when Mizuki's grandfather has no option but to leave her in a safe place while he goes for help...Despite a desperate search in the aftermath of the bomb, where he leaves origami folded paper cranes for Keiko with his address on everywhere a survivor could be, he cannot find her...

A powerful novel that, despite its harrowing subject matter, has hope at its heart.

Metal Fish, Falling Snow By Cath Moore

Dylan and her adored French mother dream of one day sailing across the ocean to France. Paris, Dylan imagines, is a place where her black skin won't stand out, a place she might feel she belongs.

But when she loses her mother in a freak accident, Dylan finds herself on a very different journey: a road trip across outback Australia in the care of her mother's grieving boyfriend, Pat. As they travel through remote towns further and further from the water Dylan longs for, she and Pat form an unlikely bond. One that will be broken when he leaves her with the family she has never known.

Metal Fish, Falling Snow is a warm, funny and highly original portrait of a Young girl's search for identity and her struggle to deal with grief. Through families lost and found, this own-voices story celebrates the resilience of the human heart and our need to know who we truly are.

St Joseph's College, Echuca

Issue 11 · 24 Jul 2020

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