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“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.”
Jacqueline Kennedy
Premiers’ Reading Challenge has been extended
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge has been extended to September 18. That means you have 8 weeks left to read and log you books!
DON’T FORGET THERE IS A PRIZE FOR STUDENT WITH MOST BOOKS READ IN EACH YEAR LEVEL!
If you have misplaced your username and password email Simone: simone.verbeeten@education.vic.gov.au
Register each book on the Challenge web page:
https://vprcidentity.eduweb.vic.gov.au/account/login
Access eBooks online at your local library:
Books that hero women
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 1 & 2
A series of stories about remarkable women and their extraordinary lives. These books bring together the stories of scientists, artists, politicians, pirates and spies. Guaranteed to inspire and delight readers of all ages.
Detention
Sima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep then in. The wires are cut one by one.
When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, people tackled to the ground. In the chaos Sima loses her parents.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Maine in Germany in 1929. In this book, her diary, Anne tells the remarkable true-story of a young, Jewish girl against the backdrop of the horrors of the Second World War.
Fight Like a Girl
Fight Like a Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand a fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it.
Slice Girls
When Dr Joan Arakkal chooses to specialise in orthopaedics while training in India, a field traditionally occupied by men, she slots into the world of bones with relative ease. But when her career takes her to the UK and then Australia, she encounters the ‘bonemen’ – a boy;s club whose members are easily identified in the hospital corridors by their loud voices and self-assured swagger.
The School of Restoration
Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord’s Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from brutal LRA, and then cared for her young nieces after their mother died of AIDs, losing them one by one to the disease. Their deaths plunged her into depression, which only began to lift after she took in an unexpected guest: a regnant teenage girl, kidnapped and assaulted by the LRA, who had escaped captivity with her toddler.
Hidden Figures
The untold story of the African American women who helped with the Space Race.
Moving from World War II through NASA;s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, ‘Hidden Figures’ interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.
HAPPY READING!
Simone Verbeeten
Library/Resource Centre