Fantastic news this week – the very popular author, Malorie Blackman, has been appointed as the new Children’s Laureate.
Students at The Dixie Grammar School love her books, especially the Noughts and Crosses series.
She has a new book out this week, Noble Conflict. It is on order for the Senior School Library – here is the book trailer:
Congratulations to Malorie!
We are selling off some of our old books from the Senior School Library to make way for new ones – see the poster below:

Mrs Robinson has made these two new guides to the Library Services at The Dixie Grammar School:
Joint Library Services
Governor Guide to the Library Services on Issuu:
Junior School Library
Staff Guide on Issuu:
We hope you find them interesting and helpful. Here is full range of our Library Guides.
Wow! There is a film of one of Mrs Robinson’s favourite ever books, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Anyway, here is the trailer:
We have the book in the Senior School Library – why not give it a try?

For more information about the fabulous Ender’s Game – have a look at this site and access this interview with Orson Scott Card.
These are our Top 50 Authors
(books borrowed by our students over the last year):
| 1 | Robert Muchamore | 26 | Clive Gifford |
| 2 | Alan Gibbons | 27 | Sophie McKenzie |
| 3 | Anthony Horowitz | 28 | Rick Riordan |
| 4 | Charlie Higson | 29 | Yamin Ma & Xinying Li |
| 5 | Jeff Kinney | 30 | J K Rowling |
| 6 | Michael Morpurgo | 31 | Chris Bradford |
| 7 | Darren Shan | 32 | Sue Limb |
| 8 | Suzanne Collins | 33 | Pittacus Lore |
| 9 | Jacqueline Wilson | 34 | Julie Bertagna |
| 10 | Derek Landy | 35 | Andy Briggs |
| 11 | John Townsend | 36 | Ally Carter |
| 12 | J R R Tolkien | 37 | Rebecca Lim |
| 13 | Philip Reeve | 38 | Hilary McKay |
| 14 | Michael Grant | 39 | Rosalind Mist & Andrew Solway |
| 15 | Paul Strathern | 40 | Alyson Noel |
| 16 | Matt Groening | 41 | Christopher Paolini |
| 17 | Alexander Gordon Smith | 42 | Helen Reynolds |
| 18 | Garth Nix | 43 | Giles Sparrow |
| 19 | Brian Knapp | 44 | Anne Cassidy |
| 20 | Malorie Blackman | 45 | Sue Penney |
| 21 | Anita Ganeri | 46 | Louis Sachar |
| 22 | Veronica Roth | 47 | Vivienne Sanders |
| 23 | M G Harris | 48 | Cath Senker |
| 24 | Lincoln Peirce | 49 | Kelley Armstrong |
| 25 | Mark Walden | 50 | Rachel Caine |
Mrs Robinson collects book trailers on our Library Online YouTube Channel. We now have more than 60:
For more ideas about what to read, have a look at our “What to read” page!














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