Book Week quiz winners!

Quiz #1 - Escape to Everywhere
We had one student who was able to correctly identify all 11 locations.

Congratulations...

Eva Kilpatrick (8 Xavier)

Quiz #2 - Pretty Little Liars
This quiz was the hardest quiz of the week, with six students getting 7 out of 10 questions right.

Congratulations...

Alisha Jones (7 Miki)
Mimosa Gillespie (7 Miki)
Ella Ball (7 Miki)
Olivia Ball (7 Ward)
Janelle Nichols (7 Miki)
Paddy Gleeson (9 Regis)

Quiz #3 - CHERUB
Another hard quiz, with one student getting 8 out of 10 questions right.

Congratulations...

Ned Poynder (7 Borgia)

You will need to come to the ILC to collect your prizes.

Congratulations to the other students who had a go. Better luck next week!

Check out the blog again next week for a new competition and a chance to win!

CHERUB - Book Week quiz #3

This week is Book Week - to celebrate, the ILC will be running 3 quizzes, so check the blog posts from this week if you have missed one.

Yummy prizes will be awarded to the student/s with the most correct answers*.

Go to the competition

Entries close on Tuesday 29th of August.

Winners announced here on Wednesday 30th August.

*The number of prizes awarded for each competition may be limited at the library's discretion.

Children's Book of the Year Award - Honour listed books

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

This is a love story.
It's the story of Howling Books, where readers write letters to strangers, to lovers, to poets.It's the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. They were best friends once, before Rachel moved to the sea.
Now, she's back, working at the bookstore, grieving for her brother Cal and looking for the future in the books people love, and the words they leave behind. [Blurb from goodreads.com]




Mrs Kelleher and Mrs Stephenson both rate this read:

The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon

Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he has ever known. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world. The night sea brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories.

The most vivid story of all, however, is the one that arrives one night in the form of Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl who appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's love songs and tragedies.
Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before.
[Blurb from goodreads.com]

Mrs Kelleher and Mrs Stephenson both rate this read:

Pretty Little Liars - Book Week quiz #2

This week is Book Week - to celebrate, the ILC will be running 3 quizzes, so check back during the week for additional chances to play.

Yummy prizes will be awarded to the student/s with the most correct answers*.

Go to the competition

Entries close on Tuesday 29th of August.

Winners announced here on Wednesday 30th August.

*The number of prizes awarded for each competition may be limited at the library's discretion.

Study tips #3

Tell someone about it

A great way of strengthening your learning is by trying to explain it to someone else.

Put your notes away and tell a friend, a parent, other family, or even your dog, what you have just learned. It's a great way of summarising without needing to write it all down, and it will quickly let you know which bits you don't fully understand or remember. Get the other person to ask questions when they don't understand something, and it will make your learning even stronger (ok, the dog isn't so helpful here!)

Also, it's a good change of pace from studying on your own.

Children's Book of the Year - Winner

One Would Think The Deep by Claire Zorn

It’s 1997 and seventeen-year-old Sam is mourning the sudden loss of his mum …

Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she’s dead, it’s worse than ever. 

With nothing but his skateboard and a few belongings in a garbage bag, Sam goes to live with the strangers his mum cut ties with seven years ago: Aunty Lorraine and his cousins Shane and Minty. 

Despite the suspicion and hostility emanating from their fibro shack, Sam reverts to his childhood habit of following Minty around and is soon surfing with Minty to cut through the static fuzz in his head. But as the days slowly meld into one another, and ghosts from the past reappear, Sam has to make the ultimate decision … will he sink or will he swim. 

[Blurb from insideadog.com.au]

Mrs Kelleher rates this read:

This book is also on the Short List for the Inky Awards!

Science Fiction or Science Fact - Winners!

It must have been a hard quiz, we only had two winners this week!

Congratulations...

Lennon Gangoso (8 Montserrat)
Parker Volke (11 Juana)

You will need to come to the ILC to collect your prizes.

Congratulations to the other students who had a go. Better luck next week!

Keep any eye on the blog this week for lots more quizzes as we celebrate Book Week!
The first quiz will be released on Monday morning at 8am.

Escape to Everywhere - Book Week quiz #1

This week is Book Week - to celebrate, the ILC will be running 3 quizzes, so check back during the week for additional chances to play.

Yummy prizes will be awarded to the student/s with the most correct answers*.

Go to the competition

Entries close on Friday 25th of August.

Winners announced here on Monday 28th August.

*The number of prizes awarded for each competition may be limited at the library's discretion.

Now in the Cinema - Stephen King's The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger (Dark Tower book 1) by Stephen King

The Dark Tower series tells the story of Roland Deschain, Mid-World’s last gunslinger, who is traveling southeast across Mid-World’s post-apocalyptic landscape, searching for the powerful but elusive magical edifice known as The Dark Tower. Located in the fey region of End-World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark Tower is the nexus point of the time-space continuum. It is the heart of all worlds, but it is also under threat. Someone, or something, is using the evil technology of the Great Old Ones to destroy it.

In Roland’s where and when, the world has already begun to move on. Time and direction are in drift, and the fabric of reality is fraying. However, things are about to get much worse. The six invisible magnetic Beams, which maintain the alignment of time, space, size, and dimension, are weakening. Because of this, the Tower itself is foundering. Unless Roland can find a way to save the Beams and stabilize the Tower, all of reality will blink out of existence. (Blurb from http://stephenking.com/)

Inky Awards short list announced

Seven teenage judges from around Australia have been furiously reading books released last year. They have been debating which books were their favourites. Now they have announced the short list for the Inky Awards 2017.

For the Gold Inky (Best Australian YA published 2016) we have:

Frankie by Shivaun Plozza
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

For the Silver Inky (Best International YA published 2016) we have:

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour & David Levithan

Soon you will be invited to vote for your favourite to determine which of these titles win. So, get reading, and enjoy some great books!

Science fiction? or fact? - quiz

This quiz is all about the weird and wonderful world of science. Can you tell the difference between what we have made up for entertainment, and which truths are stranger than fiction?

Yummy prizes will be awarded to the student/s with the most correct answers*.

Go to the competition

Entries close on Friday 18th of August.

Winners announced here on Monday 21st August.

*The number of prizes awarded for each competition may be limited at the library's discretion.

New in the ILC

Ballad for a Mad Girl by Vikki Wakefield

Part mystery, part realistic teen saga, part suspense, part supernatural. read this one with the light on.

On a dare Grace takes on the challenge of attempting the fastest pipeline crossing. The pipeline, over a deep drop, is dangerous, and scary. Not to mention that it is where Hannah Holt's body is rumoured to have been dumped 20 years ago.

Part way through her crossing, Grace experiences something eerie. Something that changes her life. She will never be the same again. Now she is obsessed with the mystery of Hannah's disappearence, and she is experiencing things she can't explain. Grace can no longer be sure if things are real, or if she really is going mad. As she becomes haunted, she doesn't know who to turn to, and her friends and family can't tell if Grace - always the joker - is being serious.

For an interview with Vikki Wakefield go to http://www.betterreading.com.au/kids-ya/qa-with-vikki-wakefield-author-of-ballad-for-a-mad-girl/

Mrs Stephenson rates this read 3 1/2 stars

Grammar made easy #1

There / Their / They're

The easiest way to remember this one:

They'are - is sort for they are.

There - is a place that is not here.

Their - it belongs to them.

Mythical beasts - winners!

We had twelve winners this week! Five lucky students were drawn out of a hat to win a major prize. All the other winners can come to the ILC to collect a small prize of their own

Congratulations...

Alisha Jones (7 Miki)
Agnel Joseph (8 Xavier)
Harrison Keating (8 Xavier)
Courtney Waugh (10 Olgilvie)
Harry Learmer-Alessi (11 Denn)

Minor prize winners:

Emily Green (7 Licona)
Ella Ball (7 Miki)
Griffen Morris (7 Miki)
Thomas Hruska (8 Campion)
Rory Quinn (8 Rubio)
Daniel Duncan (9 Gonzaga)
Joseph Milledge (9 Gonzaga)

A special mention also needs to go out to 12 Inigo who worked together to get 10 out of 10 for the quiz.

You will need to come to the ILC to collect your prizes.

Congratulations to the other students who had a go. Better luck next week!

Check out the blog again next week for a new competition and a chance to win!