Library

eBooks & New Books

Audiobooks – Our extensive eBook library now has a trial of audio books!  Give these a try by accessing the eBook library on the student portal.  If you have any questions or need any help, contact library staff.

The library staff are challenging you to consider reading an eBook over the holidays.  Consider the following books or you could choose one yourself.  Remember all eBooks return automatically after 3 weeks.  The ones here are all non-fiction (search NONF), but there are zillions more fiction books available for you to choose from.  Did we say zillions?  Check to see if we’re right!

All I know by Mary Coustas.  You might have come across Mary who plays Effie the Greek siren in Acropolis Now.  She’s a comedian, so you might find this an amusing read.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: strange days in Afghanistan by Kim Barker. A funny book about Afghanistan and Pakistan? It sounds like an oxymoron. Where is the comedy in a terrible war that continues to claim American and Afghan lives? What is comic about suicide bombers and I.E.D.’s, or a nuclear-armed Pakistan, reeling from corruption, violence and chronic dysfunction? 

What’s remarkable about “The Taliban Shuffle” is that its author, Kim Barker — a reporter at ProPublica and the South Asia bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 2004 to 2009 — has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time. Information accessed: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/books/the-taliban-shuffle-by-kim-barker-review.html  3/9/18

It’s not who you know, it’s who you are by Pat Williams.  We live in a culture obsessed with celebrity. When we're not trying to make a name for ourselves, we're following the big names on Twitter, liking them on Facebook, and taking selfies with them if we are lucky enough to run into them in real life.

Basketball and its greatest players by Sherman Holler.  This is high interest – mind you, the players are mainly American.  It’s still an interesting read though.

Homework Club

The library is open straight after school until 5:00pm each Monday. Snacks are provided and teachers will be available to help with any questions students might have. All students are welcome to attend.

Bridge Club

All interested students should come at the start of lunchtime and bring their  lunch each Thursday lunchtime. The Shepparton Bridge Club send experienced volunteers to help you learn the game. Other schools are participating so we can hold an inter-school competition near the end of the year!