Library Bytes

NEW BOOKS ARE HERE!

Future Girl. Author: Asphyxia

Set in a near-future Melbourne where food is under threat. The audience visits the private art journal of sixteen-year-old Piper McBride, with stunning colour illustrations, including full-page portraits and garden maps.

Piper hides her deafness and pass as ‘normal’. When she meets Marley, a charming CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who teaches her Auslan, her world changes dramatically. Piper starts rebelling against her previous life. 

Catch me if I fall.  Author:  Barry Jonsberg

Ash and Aiden Delatour are twins, living a privileged lifestyle with loving parents. In a world that has fallen apart at the seams, they want for nothing. All they have to do is be there for each other, no matter what.

However, after Aiden suffers a terrible injury, he isn't the same brother Ash always relied on. Something has changed, and it will lead to a discovery that will turn their whole world upside down.

Glassheart.  Author: Katharine Orton

Nona and her uncle travel everywhere together, replacing stained-glass windows in war-torn buildings. When a mysterious commission takes them to the lonely moors of Dartmoor, Nona discovers a wild and powerful magic, which threatens everything. Can Nona protect those she loves – even if it means fighting darkness itself?

The magpie society: one for sorrow

Authors:  Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch

An elite private boarding school provides the perfect setting for this gripping murder mystery. The school’s brightest student has been murdered, just as new student Audrey arrives from America. The story keeps you guessing the whole way through.

We are wolves.  Author: Katrina Nannestad

A powerful novel of survival against the odds. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe. Sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things.

Here the whole time.  Author: Vitor Martins

If you love Rainbow Rowell and Heartstopper, you will fall for this body-positive love story about the assumptions we make about each other, and the bravery we need to be ourselves.

READING  CHALLENGE  2021

Wow! A good time to start building your reading list.

Reading Challenge will start again in 2021. Therefore, when you snuggle up with your favourite book or next year’s class novels do not forget to include them in your RC list.     

Access heaps of e-books from the local library.   

EVENT

Melbourne Christmas Projection

Date: 27 November   –  25 December 2020, 

 9pm to 11:00pm nightly

Cost: Free

Location: State Library Victoria 

Corner of La Trobe and Russell Streets

City of Melbourne’s Christmas projections are back to bring you some festive cheer!

This year the projections on the Library include five different animated scenes, the first is a tribute to Melbourne’s COVID-19 heroes.

Take a walk down Swanston Street to see displays light up Melbourne Town Hall and Princes Bridge also.

The projections will light up the Library nightly from 9pm until 11pm.

Staff will be present to monitor crowd levels and ensure onlookers remain socially distanced.

Enjoy a great safe and enjoyable summer break!

Mrs Patricia Bernardo

Library Manager