Library News
As we come to the end of a busy first term, we wanted to thank all our parents and carers for encouraging students to return their library books, read a wide range of books, and bring a library bag for borrowing.
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Overdue Notices |
This week, overdue notices have started going home and more will be sent home on Monday. Please check with your child if they received one. Thankfully, there weren’t too many overdue books. If you have lost a book, please make a payment of $8 via the QKR app and let us know via email.
lauren.hudson@cg.catholic.edu.au
kirsty.vera@cg.catholic.edu.au
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Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge |
The Easter holidays are the perfect time to pick up a book and we encourage all children to keep reading during the break. If they would like to add their books to the Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge, you can see the different categories at the link below.
For helpful tips to encourage your child to read and participate in the challenge, please follow the link below:
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New Books |
We have some lovely new books in the Library. Why not pick one up off our New Books display for the holidays?
E. Nesbit - A children's classic. "It" is a Psammead, a sand fairy which gives the children a wish a day. Their wishes bring much excitement but often a lot of trouble too.
Linda Buckley-Archer - An encounter with an antigravity machine catapults Peter and Kate back into the 18th century and sets in motion a calamitous chain of events.
B.B. Alston - A 12-year-old girl from the housing projects discovers her brother was more than he seemed...And so is she. Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood City low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can't understand why it's not a bigger deal. Why isn't his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother's closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever knew.
Amelia Mellor - Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.
Zoe Foster Blake - Poor Finn is looking forward to drifting off to sleep in his cosy warm bed, when Mummy appears wanting a drink. Finn resettles her and has just fallen asleep, when he's woken again . . . this time by Daddy, who's had a bad dream. And so it goes. Just when Finn has one parent back to sleep, the other wakes up! When will these two sleep through the night?
Claire Saxby - An iceberg is born into spring and travels through the seasons before dying in a new spring.
Happy Reading
Lauren Hudson (Teacher/Librarian)
Kirsty Vera (Library Assistant)
