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Action and Adventure August – Ally Carter – I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you (Gallagher Girls 1)
This was a somewhat disappointing start for action and adventure August. The ideas were good but the story line weak. I liked the setting of an academy for young girls to become spies and the overtones of girl power/girls can do anything but the having the main character falling for a “regular guy” was a … Continue reading
Action and Adventure August – Vanished/1-800-Where -R-U
I can’t believe it is the first of the month again and time for a new genre – Action and Adventure August. Almost every book I read has some aspects of action and/or adventure but I have decided to restrict my reading this month to books with human/humanlike characters, present day scenarios and not to … Continue reading
Justice July – The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
Elizabeth Laird – The betrayal of Maggie Blair A different kind of injustice is addressed in this book. This is a novel set in the late 1600s in Scotland. It is a time of conflict between the Church (the Presbyterians) and the State (King Charles II, when religion was all about good and evil, being … Continue reading
Justice July – The Help
Katherine Stockett The Help “This could be one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird …If you read only one book…let this be it.” With the front cover having such a glowing reference who could resist! So to another justice issue – that of civil rights in the southern states … Continue reading
Justice July – Refugees (continued)
The last blog referred to a number of picture books of them Home and Away is my favourite, and it seems to resonate the most with students. Perhaps because it doesn’t have the “otherness” that elicits the shallow response from students (like it couldn’t happen to me, it doesn’t happen in Australia, that is not … Continue reading
Justice July – Refugees
Deborah Ellis is a fitting author for Justice July. Over the years I have read many of her books with the latest being the recently published The Best day of My Life. Whilst I have tagged this specific blog with refugee (because of her Breadwinner /Parvana series), this book is not about refugees but another … Continue reading
Justice July – Three Cups of Tea
A change of pace from Joking June to Justice July, books about standing up for your rights and those written to raise awareness about important social issues. This month is going to be wide ranging – Firstly, Three Cups of Tea about one man’s work to provide education in Pakistan and Afghanistan Then, refugee fiction … Continue reading
Blogs, Youtube and Copyright
I was reading an article this morning about a guy in England who is being pursued by US authorities because his site linked to content that was still within copyright. Read the article in any of the fairfax papers/online ” The unlikely poster boy for a culture war….” http://m.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-unlikely-poster-boy-for-a-culture-war-how-a-knock-on-the-door-changed-film-fan-richards-life-forever-20120625-20xcf.html and one response to it http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/case-against-student-an-outrage-20120625-20xcd.html It … Continue reading
Joking June – NIPS XI
NIPS XI Ruth Starke This book was first published in 2001 and is written for an Australian audience who know their cricket heroes. However, it would still have an appeal across various audiences although it would be better for Year 6 or Year 7 students as the main character LAN is in Year 6. The … Continue reading
New guide – Otzi
I have put up a new page. It is for Year 7 and is one of my favourite topics – Otzi the Iceman. Find it in the subject/research guides section https://teacherlibrarianhelp.com/research-guides/year-7-investigating-the-ancient-past-otzi-the-iceman/
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Soveriegn Hill Education
- Digging into Our Putrid Past: Goldfields Hygiene
- SUSTAINABILITY, Waste Not – Want Not!
- Blueprints for a Better Society: The Forgotten Legacy of Mechanics’ Institutes
- François Cogné and the Making of Main Street
- The Voyage that Changed a Life: Letters and Diaries from the Goldfields Passage
- Every Donkey Has Its Day
- Coachbuilder Mr W. Proctor
- The Goldfields according to Gill
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