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New books, different reading tastes and a world of adventures await!  Mr Murphy  shares his comments on some recent reading.

1.      What did you read?

The Rip Curl Story by Tim Baker

2.       Did you enjoy reading it?

Yes.  I started reading during term 2 but lost track half way through, so I began reading again during the holidays and knocked it over in a few days. This book is very well written with many anecdotal stories about the humble beginnings of the famous Australian surf brand Rip Curl.

3.       Do you recommend it?

Yes, I do recommend it. With many new fashion labels starting up every day, it’s great to read the history of a popular surf brand that has stayed true to their foundations and culture.

New Books

We now have the complete set of fiction books about Australia’s Great War – World War I. Brand new to our library are, 1914, 1916, 1917 and 1918.

1914 One boy’s battle, in a world at war by Sophie Masson.  A small black bottle came sailing through the air, landed on the side of the car, close to the Archduke.  An instant later came a terrific bang, the road exploded in a shower of dust and stones and tiny sharp things went flying through the air like angry bees.  So began the First World War.

1915 The Lessons of war are the hardest to learn by Sally Murphy.  When Australia throws its support behind Britain in its fight against Germany, young teacher Stan Moore is one of the first to join up, swapping the classroom for adventure in Europe. But the 11th Battalion is sent with the newly formed Anzac Corps to Gallipoli, where Stan is confronted by the hard lessons of war.

1916  In war mateship is forged by Alan Tucker.  The artillery bombardment did not let up for days.  How anyone, on either side, could still be alive, was beyond me, The trickle of casualties soon turned into a river – a raging, flooded river.

1917 A deadlocked war finds a new battlefield by Kelly Gardiner.  The German planes patrolled in hunting squads.  Their craft were fast, streaking across the sky in tight formation.  The greatest of them was the Red Baron, the deadliest ace on the Front.  He’d shot down twenty-one of our planes in a single month.  And now we were right in his firing line.

1918 The tide turns  by Libby Gleeson.  The planes kept flying low above them.  The signal rang out and the infantry surged forward through the smoke.  Thousands of men, kilometres wide, screaming and yelling.  Behind them, Monash’s tanks, huge, new, mobile machines.  They smothered the land, flattening crops and then any wire left standing.