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Mockingjay coming your way The highly anticipated 3rd title in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins titled Mockingjay will be reaching your libraries very soon. This YP title is on embargo till 24 August. All the public libraries will receive the title on 25 August. So please keep a lookout for it. If you [...]

Title: Stolen Author: Christopher, Lucy Publisher: Frome: Chicken House, 2009 Call number: Y English CHR <all rights reserved, Frome: Chicken House, 2009> Stolen by Lucy Christopher is the winner of the 2010 Branford Boase Award which is given each year to the most outstanding work of fiction for children by a first time novelist. It [...]

This year marks the 50th Year since To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. Read more about what one reviewer has to say about this story. book review – to kill a mocking bird View more presentations from AND521999. If you are interested in stories that have some similarities to this famous story, check out [...]

Title: Feeling sorry for Celia Author: Moriarty, Jaclyn Publisher: London: Macmillan Children’s 2010. Call number: Y English MOR Elizabeth is the daughter of divorced parents. She is not having a good first week of school. She learns that her father, a pilot has just moved back to Australia from Canada for a year. Her mother, [...]

Title: Lord of the Flies Author: William Golding Publisher: London: Faber and Faber, 2009 Call Number: English GOL <all rights reserved, London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1996> Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of English school boys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during [...]

Title : The 7 habits of highly effective teens: the ultimate teenage success guide Author: Sean Covey Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998. Call Number: Y English 158.0835 COV <all rights reserved, New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.> Habits are things we do repeatedly often subconsciously. Most of the time we are [...]

Title: Jia Author: Kim, Hyejin. Publisher: San Francisco, Calif.: Midnight Editions, c2007. Call Number: English KIM <all rights reserved, San Francisco, Calif.: Midnight Editions, c2007.> The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile.Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows [...]

Title The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian Author Alexie, Sherman 1966 – Publisher London: Andersen, 2008 Call Number Y ALE <All rights reserved, London: Andersen, 2008> The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells the story of Junior, a teenage boy living on an Indian reservation. He’s ambitious and bright, and he [...]

Title : Ghost town Author : Jennings, Richard W. Publisher : Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009. Call Number : Y English JEN <all rights reserved, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009> Thirteen-year-old Spencer and his mother are the last people left in Paisley, Kansas. It is a town where businesses and homes have been boarded [...]

Title: The Amulet of Samarkand Author: Jonathan Stroud Publisher: London: Doubleday, c2003. Call no.: Y English STR Book cover: <All rights reserved. London: Doubleday, c2003.> An amateur magician has been embarrassed in public by Simon Lovelace, a famous and powerful magician. He decides revenge is in order, and summons a Djinni to do his bidding. Meet [...]