From the library

All students: Now will be a good time to check if you have an overdue book or two.  If you do, please return it to any of the Neighbourhood libraries as soon as you can. We look forward to their return – and thanks for checking!

One of us is lying by Karen M. McManus     Mystery and Suspense

Image: Dymocks.com.au accessed 2/5/22

Five students walk into detention.  Only four leave alive.  Brownyn is a Yale hopeful, she’s never ‘publicly’ broken a rule.  Sports star Cooper only knows what to do in the baseball diamond, everything else is a bit of a challenge!  Nate is the bad boy in the group – he’s only a whisker away from a life of crime.  Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her ‘perfect’ life.  Simon is an outsider and creator of the gossip app at Bayview High – he dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online.  This isn’t an accident according to investigators.  All of them are suspects!  The second book in this series is currently on order …. “One of us is next”. Riveting suspense – if you like suspense!

BARTY: Arise, Queen of Oz by Ron Reed & Chris McLeod  (Autobiography - Image Booktopia.com.au  accessed 2/5/22)

It really doesn’t get any better than this.  Ash Barty is Australia’s greatest tennis player of the modern era and rewrote history by winning the 2022 Australian Open, the first woman to do so since 1978.  This book covers Bartys’ journey from Queensland to world champion and explores her gift for tennis, engaging personality, innate modesty and relentless determination to be the best.

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len - Fantasy

(Image: Allen and Unwin.com  accessed 2/5/22) 

Every family has its secrets, but the summer Joan Chang-Hunt goes to stay with her Gran in London, she learns hers is bigger than most.  The Hunts are one of twelve families in London with terrifying, hidden powers.  Joan is half-monster, her summer crush Nick isn’t just a cute boy – he has a secret too; a secret that places Joan in terrible danger.  Joan's rare and dangerous power means she’s being hunted and she’ll have to use all her skills to save herself and her family because in this story …… 

SUGAR by Carly Nugent :YA realist novel  

(Text Publishing accessed 2/5/22)    

Sugar is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl trying to make sense of the life-changing events that have sent her world into a spin, her search for a reason behind it all, and ultimately her acceptance of life's randomness.

Some people get exactly what they deserve. And, as it turns out, I deserve to be called Persephone. No simple-to-sound-out Pride-and-Prejudice-style name like Elizabeth or Jane for me. Nope. Demi had to go Greek. Define Persephone. Bringer of destruction. That pretty much sums it up. Persephone is angry. Angry that her life revolves around finger-prick tests, carbohydrate counts and insulin injections. Angry at Alexander Manson. Angry with her mum for lots of things, for nothing and for everything.  This is probably the realest YA novel you’ve been waiting your whole life to read … so