Fantasy has always been a fave genre of mine and continues to be so in the library. Every year we seem to get a “new” batch of readers who are keen on anything I can throw at them and then some of them find titles on their own and throw them at me! All good.
Currently, [...]
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At school, we have started to (again) push the concept of a Wide Reading Program (WRP) with nearly all year levels.
What is the point of these? you may ask…Don’t kids read anyway? Well, maybe but we have little idea about what thye are reading and sometimes we just have to take their word for it, [...]
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I loved this! It was so much fun and a quick and easy read suitable for both boys and girls from year 8 to Year 12. Lots of action, humour, supernatural and mystery.
The main character is really Stephanie, a 12-year-old girl who makes friends with Skulduggery, a detective who is really a skeleton. Together [...]
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What are they? What makes one book better than another, or at least considered to be part of the canon, while others sit around? What is the canon? All this and more to be discussed…maybe not right now but certainly as part of the ongoing debate within our English faculty.
Our Year 12 English classes ahve [...]
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The school is in the process of getting a power upgrade. This is long overdue and will finally enable the library to turn on the air-conditioning units which have been on the roof for over a year and NEVER turned on! I hope they still work.
To get to this point, we may have to tolerate [...]
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This is a shortlisted book for the 2009 CBC Awards and deservedly so. It tells the tale of a group of Antarctic explorers in the early 1920s who set out to cross the ice continent. What is interesting is the manner in which the tale is told, with a combinaton of journal entries interspersed [...]
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Looking at what I have done with this so far, I am thinking that I will move long reviews to my own blog page. I will keep an ongoing record here but they will be shorter snippets of reviews.
Why?
Mainly to keep the focus on what we are doing in the library and it is far [...]
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