This year's World Book Day theme at JYHS was 'Books to Movies' pupils and staff were asked for their recommendations.Pupils voted for:
Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
Holes – Louis Sachar
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Staff voted for:
Their favorite author was Stephen King
Their favorite book was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
But there were loads suggested:
Mr Paxton - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Mr Gray - A time to kill by John Grisham
Mrs Mack - A Woman of Substance by Barbra Taylor Bradford
Mr Horne - About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Mr Williamson - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Mrs Benson, Mrs Trail and Mrs Laidlaw - Atonement byIan McEwan
Ms Smith - Born Free by Joy Adamson
Mr Sammons - The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Mrs MacNeill - The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Miss Laidlaw and Mrs Sim - Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Mrs Esplin and Ms Povey - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
Mr Sexton - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Mrs Jessiman - Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Mrs Gallacher and Mrs Hobbs - Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Mrs Kendall and Mrs Petermeier - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Mr Hynd - Dr.Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Mrs Kerr - Enigma - Robert Harris
Mr Caddick - Goldfinger - Iain Fleming
Mrs McCann - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Mr Munro - Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Mrs Topping and Mrs Wells - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Mrs Malcolm - Hallem Foe by Peter Jinks
Mr Perston, Mr Jones, Mr O'Neil, Mrs Richardson and Miss Davies - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Mr Brady - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Mrs Bathgate - Hiroshima Mon Amour' by Marguerite Duras
Mr Cunningham - Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Mr Rooney - Holes by Louis Sachar
Mrs McAdam, Mrs Rutherford - Horse Whisperer by Nicolas Evans
Mrs Robertson - Into the wild by Jon Krakaver
Mrs McGeehan - Le Gone du Chaaba - Azouz Begag
Mrs Devine - The lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis
Mr Owen, Mr Walker, MrMcMillan and Mrs Molife - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mr Crookston, Mrs. Fraser (Bus Ed), Mr McGuigan and MrBlackwell - Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
Mrs White and Ms Philips - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Mrs Martin - Misery by Stephen King
Mr Mullen - No hiding place by Corie Tenbom
Mrs Colthart and Mrs Watkins – Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Miss McCormacak - 10 Commandments (Exodus in the Old Testament)
Mr Holt - One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Miss McFadyen, Miss McTiernan, Mrs Bowie, Mrs Hope, Mrs Kirkwood (H.E.) and Miss Wilson (office) - P.S. I Love You by Celia Ahern
Mrs. McKenzie - Passage to India by E.M. Foster
Mrs Lawton - Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
Mrs Ball, Mrs Batty, Mrs Fraser (Computing), Mrs Hunter, Mrs Ingram and Mrs Stevenson - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mrs Campbell (Maths) – Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Mr Wilkinson - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Mr Witherspoon - Sea Biscuit byLaura Hillenbrand
Miss Jannetta, Mr Lyons and Mrs McKellar - Silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris
Mrs Kontou – Something of Value by Robert Ruark
Mrs Spence - The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Mrs Reid - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean Dominique Bauby
Mr Ward - The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Mrs Kerr - The Firm by John Grisham
Mr Mannah and Mr.Whiteford - The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Mrs Milligan - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
MrsMcLure and Ms Stewart (Chemistry) - The Green Mile by Stephen King
Mr Dobson and Mrs Wright - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Miss Robertson (music) – The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by Robert Tine
Mr Hucker - The Last Canadian by W.C. Heine
Miss Dewar - The Last king of Scotland by Giles Foden
Mrs Wilson - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Mr. Quinn - The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Mr Reid - The Trial by Franz Kafka
Fiona Bunton and Miss Stewart (English)– Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Mrs Kirkham - Watership Down by Richard Adams
Dr. McGregor and Mrs Tomasik - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Mr McGregor – X-Men by Stan Lee
Mrs Jack - Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
