Library Online

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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

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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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Library Online has now reached 40,000 hits since Mrs Robinson started it in the Summer of 2008!

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Great video created by Larbert High school about books, reading and libraries. Lovely to see how the whole school gets involved.

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They are here, reading fans! The shortlists for the most prestigious prizes in Children’s Literature.

A colleague (see below) has collected the Carnegie Medal shortlist on Pinterest together with a set of videos. Click on the image below:

You can see the full list on the official Carnegie Shadowing site. We also have more information about the Carnegie Medal and past winners on this site. The full Carnegie shortlist has been purchased for the Senior School Library and the Kate Greenaway books are being bought for the Junior School Library.

Carnegie 2013 Pinterest by Ruth Clarke, Learning Resource Centre Manager, St Edward’s College, Liverpool.

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We have two research topics taking place in the Library during the rest of the Spring Term:

1. Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources

2. Year 9 Home Economics: Chinese Food and Culture

Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide to help you with this. You can access this at home or at school. Please let Mrs Robinson know if you have any problems with it:

Year 9 Home Economics: Chinese Food and Culture

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide to help you with this. You can access this at home or at school. Please let Mrs Robinson know if you have any problems with it:

You can also access these two Research Guides using this widget:

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Exciting news, as the school is in Market Bosworth and so close to Bosworth Field.

It was announced today by a team from the University of Leicester that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car park is really that of King Richard III.

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide on the Battle of Bosworth, Richard III and Henry VII:

More information can be found:

BBC website

The University of Leicester’s Richard III page

Richard III Society

Richard III on Wikipedia

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We now have access to Listening Books, an online audio streaming service providing children’s fiction and non-fiction in an audio format. These books can be listened to on a PC or laptop, or downloaded to portable devices such as iPods or other MP3 players.

Click on the Listening Books logo below to find out more about the service, then see Mrs Robinson for our access details.

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Do you want to improve your use of Google? Why not have a look at this fantastic infographic and “Get More Out of Google”!

Click on the image below:

Created by: HackCollege

Many thanks to Dianne McKenzie on Library Grits for this information.

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