Monthly Archives: May 2015

Moving up a year…

wchslionThe new timetable starts today, so everyone moves on a year. However, please bear with us in the library – it takes a bit longer for us to move everyone up!

Hopefully, with some very hard work from the Library Team we will have completed the task by the end of the week, in the meantime we might need to know your old class rather than your new one to find your barcode.

New Book – The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens

FireChronicleThree Children. Two Worlds. One Prophecy.

Kate…
The elder, keeper of the Book of Time. Last seen fighting off a screecher to save her siblings.

Michael
In charge now Kate’s gone. He needs to go to the end of the earth to unlock the secrets of the Fire Chronicle.

Emma
The youngest, and never one to back down from a fight. She just wants her family back together.

With an evil sorcerer on their trail, it’s not going to be easy…

The sequel to The Emerald Atlas. This book continues from where Emerald Atlas ends and contains just as much action, adventure, magic and mystery as the first did.

New Book – The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens

Emerald AtlasThree Children. Two Worlds. One Prophecy

They were snatched from their beds in the dead of night. When the world was covered in snow.

Ten years on, Kate, Michael and Emma have grown up in a string of miserable orphanages, and all memories off their parents have faded. Arriving in the eerily silent Cambridge Falls, the children quickly realize there is something strange going on…

With the discovery of an old leather book, an ancient magical prophecy is set in motion which will take them on the adventure of several lifetimes, to worlds outside their own. Only they have the power to save the town – and their own future.

A fantastic children’s fantasy book filled with magic and adventure. So fall into the world and fall in love with not just 3 children with a special destiny but kindly wizards, evil witches, quirky dwarves, gentle giants and terrifying beings called Screechers.

New Books in the Library – The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez

LittleCoffeeShopThis week I’ve been adding some new books to the senior library – the latest is The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, by Deborah Rodriguez, a novel about Afghan culture, women and sisterhoods.

The blurb says:

In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.

Sunny, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan – and fast – to keep her cafe and customers safe.

Yasmina, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul’s violent streets.

Isabel, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life.

Candace, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil.

And Halajan, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.

As these five women discover there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others.

 

Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth, reviewed by HS

fourFour is a book by Veronica Roth, the author of the Divergent series. This was suppose to be the book starting the series but came to a standstill and has now been released as a collection. The story is from the view of Tobias Eaton, known as Four in the series and shows what happened to him when he chose Dauntless. The first three parts are two years prior to the main story of Divergent, before Tris chose her faction. I really like the story because after I finished the first book I thought about how Four had been like before he met Tris. My favourite part of the story was when Four met someone from his past that he thought was dead. I don’t really want to spoil the story for everyone so this is all I’m going to write.

Book of the Week – Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

lifeafterlifeWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.

What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

Life After Life is a clever, intricate novel about whether destiny is a fixed thing, and about how fragile human life can be.

Sponsored Walk

Get your walking boots on!sponsored walk

The last Friday of our Health and Well-being Week is always marked by the school sponsored walk, when most of the staff and students spend all morning taking part in a gentle stroll through the surrounding area.

Hopefully the rain will stay off and everyone will enjoy being out in the fresh air this morning.

Book of the Week – Ensnared by A. G. Howard

EnsnaredThis week’s Book of the Week is the third book in A. G. Howard’s twisted and creepy homage to Alice in Wonderland – we also have Splintered and Unhinged in the library. I absolutely love the covers of these books – they are works of art.

After surviving the disastrous battle at her prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She’s determined to rescue her two worlds, and the people and netherlings she loves, even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles . . . even if the only way to Wonderland is through the looking-glass world—a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent outcasts.

In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered series, Alyssa journeys into the heart of magic and mayhem to set right all that’s gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, she must save Wonderland from the decay and destruction that have ensnared it. But even if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after?