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Monthly Archives: March 2017
New Books in the Library – Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
New in the library is this gorgeously covered and eerily atmospheric story about the interlinked lives of three young adults and the terrible secret they share.
Every story needs a hero.
Every story needs a villain.
Every story needs a secret.
Wink, Poppy, Midnight.
Two girls, one boy, one summer, one bad thing. What really happened?
Someone knows.
Someone is lying.
Wednesday Bookclub
The Wednesday Book Club have kidnapped the chalkboard…
New Books in the Library – Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson
New in the Library this week, the hilariously silly Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson.
Meet the Dark Lord. Fear his mood swings!
Greetings, puny human! I am the Dark Lord. You may call me Master.
This tome of staggering genius is scribed by me, the Dark Lord, a.k.a. Dirk Lloyd. My archenemy has cast me into your world in the body of a teenager. Oh, the indignity! Brutal revenge wil be mine! As soon as I’ve done my homework…
Mwa ha ha!
Well Read display for Comic Relief
Friday Fun
New books in the library – The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
New in the library this week is a dramatic retelling of Hamlet set in 1920s America, The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters.
Scene: Oregon, 1923.
Dramatis personae:
Hanalee Denney, daughter of a white woman and an African American man
Hank Denney, her father—a ghost
Greta Koning, Hanalee’s mother
Clyde Koning, doctor who treated Hank Denney the night he died, now Hanalee’s stepfather
Joe Adder, teenage boy convicted of accidentally killing Hank Denney
Members of the Ku Klux Klan
Townspeople of Elston, Oregon
Question: Was Hank Denney’s death an accident…or was it murder most foul?
World Book Day books
We have some copies of the World Book Day books in the library. You can find them on the Quick Reads spinner. These are a great way to try out an new author, or to read a different genre.
World Book Day vouchers can be used up until the end of March to get your own copy of any one of the books for free! If you don’t have a World Book Day voucher, ask your English teacher.
Book Trust Bookfinder
Not sure what to read next?- Find it hard to decide what you like?
- Can’t find any books in your favourite genre?
Give the bookfinder a go, and see if it can help you find your next great read!
http://www.booktrust.org.uk/books/bookfinder/111#/d/books/bookfinder/
Cogheart by Peter Bunzl – Book of the Week
This week’s featured book is a fantastic Victorian steampunk adventure, with a fearless heroine and a clockwork fox called Malkin. I absolutely loved it!
Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat.
Lily’s life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?
With her friends – Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox – Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart…
Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure.
If you click on the book cover the link will take you to Peter Bunzl’s official website where there are lots of freebies, including how to write your own Penny Dreadful and how to make a Zoetrope (which is an early form of animation) and free gifs, including this running fox gif, (which I really like and may have to permanently post on the blog sidebar). Have a look!