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Another Orientation activity
Thank you so much to the wonderful Jill Duffield, now happily retired, for sharing this activity. While obviously some of this would be out-dated by now and certainly does not reflect individual libraries, I can already see ways to take this structure and transform it for my ‘beefier’ follow-up sessions with Year 7s. Answers Race…
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League of Llamas – Aleesah Darlison
Visit Aleesah’s webpage here Penguin March 2020 RRP: $9.99 Well… Aleesah’s new series is bound to be a hit with junior/middle primary readers with galloping (I’m not sure llamas actually gallop but still…) plots, high octane humour and loads of adventure. I knew that James Bond is currently having a contemporised make over but…
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Year 7 Library Intro activity
2020Chase Welcome to the Chase Two different versions (for two different schools/libraries). Attached are both copies – you would need to adjust depending on your own library of course. But the students found it a lot of fun – there was some quite fierce competition – and lolly prizes which always help! Just be prepared…
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The Long Distance Playlist – Tara Eglington
Harper Collins Australia January 2020 ISBN: 9781460755211 ISBN 10: 1460755219 Imprint: HarperCollins – AU RRP: $19.99 Well if you told me I would absolutely fall in love with a YA (primarily) romantic novel I would no doubt have scoffed loudly. However, this is just delightful and so so much more than just romance. Eglington explores contemporary culture, family…
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Peppa Pig: Where’s Peppa’s Magical Unicorn?
a lift-the-flap book February 2020 ISBN: 9780241412046 Imprint: Ladybird Format: Board Book RRP: $14.99 Peppa’s popularity shows no signs of diminishing any time soon and with the range of books for tiny readers that are emerging her little fans will continue to adore her small adventures. With unicorns being so hot at the moment this is surely a winning…
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Will the Wonderkid: Treasure Hunter of the Australian Outback – Stephanie Owen Reeder
National Library of Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9780642279521 RRP: $24.99 I adore this series! In Heritage Heroes, Reeder not only takes her readers on adventures but provides rich fodder for hunters of history. Each volume has explored the (often unknown) achievements of young Australian people of the past in a fictionalised narrative which is lavishly…
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Evie and Pog (series)– Tania McCartney
Harper Collins Australia January 2020 I’ve said before that Tania McCartney is uber-talented (as well as being one of the very nicest humans I know) and I for one am tremendously excited about this new series pitched at newly independent readers. It’s just fabulous to see a few new series to add to these collections!…
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The Space We’re In – Katya Balen
Bloomsbury November 2019 ISBN: 9781526610942 RRP $14.99 What an absolutely stunning debut novel from Katya Balen! Simultaneously heart-breaking and uplifting Balen examines the difficulties faced by a child living with a special needs sibling. Frank is ten years old. He loves soccer and space, he loves secret codes and playing in the ‘Wilderness’ with his two…
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The Kid Who Came From Space – Ross Welford
Harper Collins Australia January 2020 ISBN: 9780008333782 ISBN 10: 0008333785 Imprint: HarperCollins – GB List Price: 14.99 AUD This is the second Ross Welford book I have read and reviewed [The 1, 000 Year Old Boy] and once again I am tremendously impressed in his story-telling which takes something unbelievable and makes it completely feasible. A small village in…
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