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!
Great video created by Larbert High school about books, reading and libraries. Lovely to see how the whole school gets involved.
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.
We have two research topics taking place in the Library during the rest of the Spring Term:
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Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources
- 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:
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
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.
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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