Welcome to Roding Reads, YOUR weekly newsletter on all things reading. Today is VE Day, where we pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the entire Second World War generation. We hope you enjoy this edition end all your pictures and writing to: ajones@rodingvalley.net.
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Ms Di Ilio: The Librarian of Auschwitz
Tervel Manchorov, 7V
Set in Auschwitz during World War Two, this is a heartwarming, yet heart-wrenching read - in a world where books are more treasured than life. The main character is an inspiration to us all, never giving up hope in the most impossible circumstances.
This is a story about a really naughty kid, who, in every chapter does something bad and gets into trouble.
Book of the Week: The Book Thief 1939. Nazi Germany. Death has never been busier, and the country is holding its breath. Liesel, a nine-year-old book thief, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street, as her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when Read it here: http:// the bombs begin to fall. It's a small story, allbooksworld.com/ about: a girl, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot the-book-thief-byof thievery. This novel is narrated by Death markus-zusak-epub and Death will visit the Book Thief three -download/ times...
Games Corner All the words you are looking for are WW2-themed. Happy hunting!
This week there has been lots of World War reading, and there are so many books to choose from. Can you find one and give it a read? Show us!
Please remember to quiz books on Accelerated Reader when you have finished reading them! This is still an expectation!
VE Day/WW2 Quiz time — Answers next week! 1. What does VE Day stand for? 2. Who was monarch at the time of VE Day? 3. Which country did Nazi Germany invade to start WW2? 4. In which year did WW2 start? 5. Who was Prime Minister when Great Britain declared war on Germany? 6. How many years has it been since WW2 ended? 7. True or False—Adolf Hitler signed the Nazi surrender? 8. Who was Prime Minister at the end of WW2? 9. Which came first: VE Day or VJ (Victory in Japan) Day? 10. What part of the British Isles did the Nazis occupy during WW2? Quiz Answers 03.04.20 1. May 4th 2. Jupiter 3. Titan 4. Mars 5. 151 million km
6. 8 minutes 7. Andromeda 8. The explosion of a star. 9. Valery Polyakov (438 consecutive days!)
Writer’s Corner - Read a great book recently? Write a book review and send it in! - Why not write a letter to an author about one of their books? - “I loved your book BUT…” and pick something you would have done differently. We will then send these to the authors, and publish them in the Writer’s Corner. You never know…we may even get a reply! Everyone loves an #EvenBetterIf moment! Remember, send it all to us at Roding Reads by emailing: ajones@rodingvalley.net Miss Larkin is reading The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum, which looks at the history of post-war Eastern Europe and Penelope is reading the amazing Noughts and Crosses series. We also have a camera -shy Mckenzie reading Walking with Dinosaurs! Keep sending your pics in, we love to see what you read!
Miss Larkin Mckenzie Winslow, 7R
Penelope Casali, 7U
Summer Term— #WritersPerch Featured below is some work submitted by Year 7s this week. Keep up the hard work, everybody and keep any writing or drawings you are proud of to: ajones@rodingvalley.net. By Dolly Curtis, 7Q
A book review by Penelope Casali, 7U