Quote of the week

Art by (and from) The Dreams You Have on Prozac (tumblr)

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand".

~ Neil Gaiman. 

             

eBooks for holiday reading

Did you know that the ILC has eBooks that you can download and read? This means that even though borrowing has finished for the year, you can still get your reading fix from us!

All you have to do to find eBooks is go to the ILC homepage and type ebook into the search. If you are looking for a particular title or genre, simply type that into the search followed by ebook. For example: Head of the river ebook or Adventure ebook.

If you hover your mouse over a title you are interested in, you will be able to open the book by clicking on the link marked related web addresses.

Try some of these great reads:

      

Don't forget that eBooks can be read on any device that can read ePub files. That means you don't need your laptop, you can curl up with your phone or tablet with your new favourite book.

Quote of the week

"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be"

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

ILC back open

The ILC has reopened now the Year 12 exams have finished. We would like to thank all students and staff for their patience during this last month of interruptions.

Book Review: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Have you ever watched a film staring a teenage superhero and wondered what the other kids at their school thought: What would life be like if you went to school with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or John Smith (from I am Number Four), Percy Jackson, or even Harry Potter? Where weird stuff seems to happen when they are around, and you know they are caught up with something bigger than you are, and they are off saving the world. But somehow adults don't seem to notice.

The Rest of Us Just Live here is about those ordinary kids. The ones who know that the heroes are risking their lives, they just don't know what to do about it, and know that they are not really welcome to start asking questions.

They may not be heroes, but the problems they face, though "normal" often require just as much courage as those faced by the ones saving the world. Only, they don't have the black and white definitions of right and wrong to guide them. There are a lot of different kinds of gray out there to confuse matters.

Not to mention, on top of navigating your final year of high school, trying to work out what the future has in store for you, changing friendships and love, you need to be able to survive the apocalypse, and hope that you graduate before anyone blows up the gym.

 

Library available Monday, Wednesday and Thursday next week

The Library will be available for returns before and after school, and during class time (not lunch time or recess) next week on the days there are no exams scheduled:

• Monday 9th
• Wednesday 11th
• Thursday 12th

The Library staff will be supervising X12 at lunchtime on these days, and all the other days the library is closed for exams. You are welcome to come in to play Uno, return or renew books and borrow new items by arrangement.

The space will still be set up for exams, so please be aware that areas with furniture stacked are off limits for OH&S reasons.

The Library will reopen as usual from Wednesday 18th of November.