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BOOK WEEK TALKS
Do you have a son or daughter in Years 7 - 10? If so, they will most likely have participated in a book week activity. The activities included authors talking about what motivates them to write, what they write and other talks on writing techniques.
The writing techniques workshops were hopefully useful for students going on to VCE as the ability to express ideas, opinions etc., in a structured coherent way can only help improve educational outcomes. Please have a conversation with your son or daughter and ask them what they learnt during their book week activity.
AND THE WINNER IS.…
The book of the year for Older readers
“Take three girls” by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood.
Three award-winning authors.
One compelling book.
ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be.
KATE - brainy boarder taking risks to pursue the music she loves.
CLEM - disenchanted swim-star losing her heart to the wrong boy.
All are targeted by PSST, a toxic website that deals in gossip and lies. St Hilda's antidote to the cyber-bullying? The Year 10 Wellness program. Nice try - but sometimes all it takes is three girls.
Exploring friendship, feminism, identity and belonging. Take Three Girls is honest, raw and funny.
Honours award go to “Malle boy” by Charlie Archbold.
“Sometimes I feel like I'm neither one thing nor another. I live in the Mallee but I don't like the desert. I live on a farm but I get hay fever and I'm scared of goats. I like school but my best mates don't.”
Sandy Douglas knows that life at fifteen is hard, but it's even harder when your mother died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. Sandy's brother Red, on the other hand, is eighteen now and working the farm. He's amped up on rage and always looking for a fight. And then there's their dad Tom. He does his best, but - really - he doesn't have a clue.
“In the dark spaces” by Cally Black
A genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers.
Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople – the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now – and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive.
But survival always comes at a price, and there’s no handbook for this hostage crisis. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, she realises she has an impossible choice to make.
Should she stay as the only human among the Crows, knowing she'll never see her family again … or inevitably betray her new community if she wants to escape?
Click below for a complete list of winners in all categories:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=14uAXHVuAPoO569CUk2zt09Y9hJ2edGQb
COMPLETE LIST OF PAST CBC BOOK AWARD FROM 1946 ONWARDS
Can you spot any books from your childhood here? The CBC book week awards past winners list makes interesting reading.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cxVVMZpdmFy8uVYVQvGWXxOcBivtyM9N/view?usp=sharing