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Book Week 18 – 24 August 2018!
The Library is ready to celebrate Book Week next week. This year’s theme is ‘Find Your Treasure’.
Activities throughout the week will include:
- Character parade – Thursday 23rd August at 9:30am in the MPC
- Interactive display in the Library – all week
- Crawl into a shark’s mouth or don a mermaid/merman tail
- Lunchtime activities in the Library – all week
These include:
- A library hunt
- Treasure maps
- Colouring-in
CBCA Book Awards
Here are more of the shortlisted books in contention for a Children’s Book Council of Australia award. All of these books are available in our Library.
Older Readers
Kate, a quiet boarder, making some risky choices to pursue the experimental music she loves. Clem, shrugging off her old swim-team persona, exploring her first sexual relationship, and trying to keep her annoying twin, Iris, at arm's length. Ady, grappling with a chaotic family, and wondering who her real friends are; she's not the confident A-lister she appears to be. When St Hilda's establishes a Year 10 Wellness Program in response to the era of cyber-bullying, the three girls are thrown together and an unlikely friendship is sparked. One thing they have in common: each is targeted by PSST, a site devoted to gossip and slander that must have a source within St Hilda's. Who can you trust when rumour is the new truth?
Younger Readers
An elephant?' Arthur gasped. 'In your house? But...is it real?' Olive leaned a little closer and lowered her voice. 'Well, that's the thing ...' Olive's father has a sadness so big that she imagines it as a large grey elephant following him around. With the help of her cheery grandfather and her best friend, Arthur, Olive sets out to chase away her father's elephant.
Early Childhood
In the 1950s and 60s Australia welcomed thousands of British immigrants as part of the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. Ten Pound Pom is the true story of award-winning author Carole Wilkinson's immigration to Australia.
Reader of the Week
You were spotted reading a book at lunchtime recently. Please see Mrs Jenkinson for your reward. Well done!
