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New Books

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:25:42 +0000

Loads of new fiction books have just been added to our stock in The Michael Parker Library!

Here are a couple of book trailers…

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Why not visit this week and borrow some great new fiction!

War Horse Film Trailer

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:10:50 +0000

Here is the trailer for the film of the fantastic book by Michael Morpurgo:

Joy of Books

Mrs Robinson — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:13:04 +0000

Are you a book lover? Then have a look at this wonderful video – just don’t expect us to re-create it in our libraries!

Hunger Games fans!

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:52:36 +0000

The film trailer is now out – have a look a this! If you have never read the Hunger Games trilogy then you have missed a fantastic treat – the books are available from your library.

Reading is Fun!

Mrs Robinson — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:47:01 +0000

This week, we are going to introduce our Year 7 and 8 classes to our reading development wiki called Reading is Fun! We hope that students will use this to track their reading development during this year. They are asked to write a page about their favourite books and magazines using images and embedded videos to enliven the page. Students are also encouraged to comment on each other’s pages with positive ideas and support.

There is a full page with embedded presentations on this site and Mrs Robinson has also put these on this post.

If you are a Dixie student in Year 7 or 8, have a look at the presentation below to remind you how to use the wiki. Please ask Mrs Robinson if you need your username and password.

The presentation as a PowerPoint on SlideShare:

Intro to Reading is Fun! Wiki

View more presentations from The Dixie Grammar School Library

The presentation with Mrs Robinson speaking on VoiceThread:

Carnegie and Greenaway nominations announced

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:24:45 +0000

The CILIP Carnegie Medal and the CILIP Greenaway Medal are very famous awards for children’s books. The nominations for 2012 have been announced today. These are all fantastic books – please let Mrs Robinson know if you would like to read any of them and she will buy them for either library.

CILIP Carnegie Medal nominations 2012

CILIP Greenaway Medal nominations 2012

Booked Up books are here!

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:18:37 +0000

Good news for our Year 7 students – the Booked Up books have arrived already. Mrs Robinson will sort them out next week and give them to you as soon as possible.

Booked Up is here again!

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:56:26 +0000

This week, our Year 7 students will have the opportunity to choose a free book from the Booked Up scheme.

Have a look at the website to see more details:

The book choices are great!

There is also a film you can watch – we will be looking at this during Year 7 English visits to the Library this week.

Guardian Children’s Books site

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:19:12 +0000

If you don’t know what to read next, why not have a look at this great site! It will help you find a fantastic new book to read and you can ask Mrs Robinson if she will buy it for the Library.

Guardian Children's Books

Mockingjay is here!

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:43:30 +0000

Our two copies of Mockingjay arrived yesterday! Mrs Robinson read the book last night – it was so good that she couldn’t put it down and read into the early hours of the morning – fantastic!