Library and Resource Centre
Maryanne Gustus
“Cool is lonely.
Stay brave,
Awkward and
Kind.”
Brene Brown.
The Children’s Book Council of Australia – Book Week.
This week, August 21- 28, is Book Week right across Australia. This annual event acknowledges and congratulates the wonderful and talented array of authors, illustrators, publishers and book sellers who contribute so enthusiastically to the world of childrens’ and young adult literature.
For we here in the Monivae College Library this is a very important occasion.
We have some ‘celebrations/competitions’ planned that will wait until we are all back together again as a School Community, we Library staff will very much look forward to that time.
Here are the winning books for 2021….all of which we have in our Collection.
Winner – Book of the Year, older readers.
She said we didn’t know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church. But in the night, I couldn’t bear it. My chest beat like wings.
Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother’s collection of classic literature—until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a welcome distraction. But who is he really, and why has he come? As love blooms and the world stops spinning, the secrets of the girls’ past begin to unravel and escape is the only option. A sumptuously written novel of love and grief; of sisterly affection and the ultimate sacrifice; of technological progress and climate catastrophe; of an enigmatic bear and a talking whale—The End of the World Is Bigger than Love is unlike anything you’ve read.
Honours
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 make her stand out, a place where 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 that 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.
Where we begin by Christie Nieman
Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some secrets - once laid bare - can never be forgiven. A dark, deeply compelling, coming-of-age YA novel from the author of As Stars Fall.
As part of the Student Leadership program we are in the early stages of forming a “Social Justice” group led by a very enthusiastic group of Monivae College students from all Year levels. Mrs. Jane Nankivell and myself will act as ‘guides’ for the Students.
This group will be very much student driven as to the issues and concerns that will be addressed here in our School community. The decision was made, first and formost, to look at our own “backyard” first of all.
To borrow a phrase from the well-known Australian Social Researcher Hugh Mackay….”The Kindness Revolution” is coming to Monivae!
(We also have this title in our collection.)
The Library feels very empty and quiet, because it is, without all you dear Students and Staff here on campus. Whilst the time to catch up on Library work is welcomed, how we miss your lively and beautiful presence. We hope that you are all travelling along well during this time.
If there is anyone who would like a book or two to be mailed out to you, please simply email me mgustus@monivae.vic.edu.au and this can easily be arranged. Many of you now know how to place requests online yourselves after searching our Oliver library system so I encourage you all to do this.
One can also phone us here in the Library directly on 5551 1230.
Please don’t forget our Wheelers eBook platform availability, especially for Audio books. Listening online, being read to, will provide you with a space of respite and escape should you like to give your mind a lovely rest.
I would like to share something with you all that was sent to myself this week by Mrs. Jane Nankivell. A jolt or shift in our perspective can be a wonderful thing.
“There are at least a billion people on earth at this moment who would consider their prayers answered if they could trade places with you.”
Maryanne Gustus
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