Upcoming activities in the Library
Anime and Manga Club – Week 4, Monday lunchtime in N2
Premiers Reading Challenge
Only two weeks remain to complete the Premiers Reading Challenge for 2022. Students will need to have read 20 books (15 PRC books and 5 of own choice) by Friday 19th August. Premiers Reading Challenge books in the Senior Library can be identified by the red sticker found on the book’s spine. To be entered in the competition students need to return to Library staff a signed parental permission form along with a completed book list. All completed entries will go into the draw for a $50 JB HI FI gift card!
Book Bites
Take a book bite to see if it is to your taste
‘Lifelik3’ – Jay Kristoff
“It's just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built... When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves ... and learn the dark secrets of her past.”
‘Lifelik3’ written by Australian author Jay Kristoff is a gritty thrilling dystopian adventure that will have readers engaged from the very first page. Kristoff has created a wonderfully detailed and brutal future, a nation recovering from a terrible nuclear war. It is a land of fantastic machines and technology, of struggles and hardship, where people have search through the scraps of society just to survive. With incredible characters, a fast-paced story and lots of nail biting cliff-hangers, this is a great novel that is bound to find many new fans.
‘The Inheritance Games’ – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
“She came from nothing. Avery has a plan- keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why. They had everything. Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money. Now there's only one rule- winner takes all. Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?”
‘The Inheritance Games’ is a wonderfully suspenseful and thrilling roller-coaster of a novel that readers will find impossible to put down. Filled to the brim with secrets and cryptic puzzles, as well as lots of plot twists and turns, author Jennifer Lynn Barnes has woven together a complex but compelling story that doesn’t let go until the very last page. Main protagonist Avery is likeable, believable, and a relatable character. Her quest to discover her mystery benefactor will have readers hooked and wanting more. The first in a series, this is a fantastic mystery book that will be enjoyed by many.
Mrs Annette Comiskey & Mr Michael Smith
Senior IRC Library Team
