Big thanks to the monitors!

It is that time of year again when we say goodbye to some Library Monitors and a big thanks to all the monitors.

This year we loose the joint Head Monitors - Stewart and Ailsa.
A big thanks for all your hard work over the years. I will miss our chats and all the laughter.

I also would like to say a massive thanks to say a big thanks to all the library monitors from this year (especailly those heading off to pastures new). It's been a blast guys - here's to next year!

And then there were none by Agatha Christie

Bunch of people on remote island get bumped off one by one -good and certainly didn’t see solution coming. It was fun and an interesting idea - did anyone see the Family Guy episode that was inspired by it? “And then there were fewer” – genius.

Book Related Apps

Artemis Fowl
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Settle on the sofa with Stephen Fry
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iClarkson
Jeremy Clarkson's virtual study and on the walls you'll find pictures of more than 140 cars. Tap on a car to uncover Jeremy's review, view photos of the car, watch a video and view its stats. With over 500 images throughout, 20 videos and 10 typically Clarkson audio anecdotes to listen to it's what the iPad and car lovers have been waiting for...
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Mrs. Reid gets caught reading...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
"It's the kind of book that you just can't put down."

Red House Book Award Winners Announced

Overall Winner - 
 Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
After learning about asylum-seeking families being cruelly confined to quarters inside an immigration removal centre, Michael Morpurgo was inspired to write Shadow, his story about an Afghan boy and a Springer Spaniel. Their hazardous flight from war-torn Afghanistan to the safety of Uncle Mir’s home in Manchester is told simply and readers become deeply involved with their fate. Aman and his mother do find freedom again and learn to live happily in an adopted country until... The clever combination of Christian Birmingham’s powerful and atmospheric, black and white illustrations with lyrical writing, blends into a single ‘cinematic’ narrative.

Winner in the Older Readers Category -
Time Riders by Alex Scarrow
This fantastic adventure gripped both boy and girl readers from the first page. Three teenagers who should have died at different times - Liam in 1912, Maddy in 2010 and Sal in 2026 - didn’t. Moments before their death someone appeared and said, “Take my hand...” But they were not saved, they were recruited to destroy the past. Disbelief is suspended as we move through narrative that remains clear and fast paced. Exciting and ingenious, the changes in time and perspective intensify the action creating lots of twists and turns to keep the pages turning. A terrific read.
 

BBC reckons most people have read 6 of these - how are you doing?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Mrs McGeehan gets caught reading...

Find out more about Japan

Japan has been the news recently as a result of a massive earthquake back in March. They still face major challenges trying to recover from it. You can read more about what the situation is now at the BBC newswebsite.

If you want to make a donation towards the relief effort you can do so through the Red Cross.

Japan lives with constant threat of earthquakes - read more about how they cope here

The current library display highlights Japanese Culture through the Nipponia or try Web Japan.

Best Opening Lines - Part 1

 "When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning, he found that he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug."

Is the strart to Franz Kafka's short story 'Metamorphosis'


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