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LIBRARY FOCUS OF THE MONTH: English Language and Literature collections
VALUED RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM TEACHERS
HERE ARE SOME GOOD BOOKS FOR EVERYONE! PAGE 3-4
EXCLUSIVE!
RECENT ARRIVALS BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW BOOKS IN OUR LIBRARY! PAGE 5-6
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Mr Christopher Koay Panel Chairperson English Language and Literature Department
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Dear students, The English Language and Literature Department has always placed great emphasis on reading as
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one of the most effective ways to learn the
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language. When you learn a language, listening, speaking and writing are important, but reading can help in the learning of vocabulary in context, be a model for writing, seeing
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“correctly
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structured� English, working at your own speed, and increasing your knowledge and understanding of other subject matter. Our department has a reading programme where you have been recommended selected books to read. However, we would like to encourage you to read more widely and choose books which interest you. Our library has an extensive collection of books for the learning of English and your reading pleasure. If there is a particular book you would like us to add to our library collection, please let your English teachers or the teacher librarians know.
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Message from your student librarians Dear schoolmates,
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Once again, please allow me to proudly present to you our November Issue of the School Library Newsletter. This time we have the honour of inviting the teachers from the English Department to introduce some of our English collections to you. These items included both fiction and non-fiction categories. Some items provide guidelines for our lives, some give us useful information Student of the Year for our studies, and some leave us great room for imagination, and fascinate us with the power of words and creativity. We would like to thank the English teachers for the support they have given to the library and wish you lots of happy reading!
Best wishes, Andy Wang Editor-in- Chief
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VALUED RECOMMENDATIONS Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (Author of To Kill A Mockingbird) Having read To Kill A Mockingbird years ago during my school days, Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee brings back memories of the characters and the story of racial politics in the American South. In Watchman, Lee focuses on the story of Jean Louise coming home to Maycomb from New York and being confronted by the racist attitudes of Atticus Finch, her father, who associates with the KKK, and Henry (“Hank”) Clinton, her “white trash” boyfriend. The novel traces Jean Louise’s painful coming to terms with her roots and her fleeting recollections of childhood and her brother, Jem. Set against the backdrop of one of the most monumental changes in American society, as we see increasing civil rights tensions and an end to segregation, more divisions become apparent. This book exposes the prejudices between races, North versus South and the different generations. As Scout (Jean Louise) adjusts to a fast-changing society, her perceptions of her neighbours, friends and family are altered forever. She must learn to adapt to her new discoveries and deal with her disillusionment. Mr Christopher Koay
(Recommended for Form 3)
Bring your tissues when you read this novel: you will need them to mop up tears of laughter as well as sorrow as you make your way through this charming and very touching story. The novel focuses on seven year-old Elsa, who is bullied at school for being different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and equally unconventional, as well as being Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa seeks sanctuary in her grandmother’s fairytale world, in the Land-of-AlmostAwake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and there is no pressure to conform to standards of normality. Then Elsa’s grandmother dies, leaving behind a series of letters that Elsa has to locate and that apologize to those her grandmother has wronged. Thus Elsa enters the world of her grandmother’s fairytales and has to fight to protect all that she holds dear, while discovering the truth about her grandmother and those she saved and sought to protect. This is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different. It teaches us to look beyond appearances and seek to understand why people behave the way they do. This is the perfect ‘rite of passage’ novel to prepare Form 3 for their own RoP experience at the end of the year. Happy reading and dare to be different! Mr. Lee Oliver Call no.: F BAC
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene This book is so good that we actually have two copies in the library! When I was at school, in the Lower Sixth (Form 5), I studied this novel for A-level and was immersed in a world of gangsters, horrific knife violence and things not being quite what they seem. This is an England very different from Downton Abbey: it’s an England in the 1930s where people struggle to survive, where a 17 year-old boy is in charge of a vicious firm of gangsters, and where a young innocent girl is corrupted by the cruel intentions of those around her. Brighton Rock’ is named after the famous candy you see above, and this novel shows you what can happen when two different philosophies clash (the naïve and stitled version Roman Catholicism of Pinkie and a much more secular, worldly and equally dangerous vision of Ida Arnold). Lives are destroyed forever and the young girl Rose is left facing ‘the worst horror of all’ at the end of the story: that she is hated by the one person in the world she thought she could trust. If you want a vitriolic pulp-fiction novel par excellence that keeps you on the edge of your seat right until the very end, this is the book for you. It also has one of the best opening chapters you will ever read. I do hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Mr. Ian Pomeroy Call no. : F GRE
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Call no.: F LEE
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VALUED RECOMMENDATIONS Barron’s IELTS: International English Language Testing System BY Barron’s Educational Series This test preparation manual covers all parts of the IELTS (General & Academic modules) and all of its question types: multiple-choice, short answer, sentence completion, flowchart completion, graphs, tables, making notes, summarizing, labeling diagrams and maps, classification, matching, and selecting from a list. You will find: - Four practice Academic tests reflective of the most recent exams - Two practice General Training tests - An MP3 CD containing audio for all tests and activities - Explanatory answers for all test questions Ms. Gigi Wong & Mrs. Scarlett Tai
Call no.: 428.0076 BAR
Give and Take by Adam Grant
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Given the well-worn adage ‘it is better to give than to receive’ that we nod our head to but on the inside silently wish for the opposite. It was the topmost line on the cover (‘why helping others drives our success’) that drove me to wonder whether altruism, charity and generosity - when it comes to time, knowledge and (perhaps) money could actually benefit me. Would it make me a ‘doormat’ that gets taken advantage of by others, or even an underachiever when it comes to being rewarded? Adam Grant forgoes the oft-used but ultimately meaningless route of solely using irrelevant and embellished anecdotes by quoting from, and summarizing for, casual readers a plethora of scientific research and studies done by numerous experts in the field of psychology, combining them with success stories of others and himself to create a context in which all, young and old, studying or working, can find the sweet spot that provides the greatest return, coupled with a high degree of self-satisfaction. If you want to know why being an ‘otherish’ giver beats being a ‘taker’ or the more common ‘matcher’, don’t hesitate to read this book now! Mr. Cyrus Chow
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner The authors and economists are people not simply interested in matters of money. They are concerned with real world questions and ask why some things work and some things don't -- then they ask "can we make them better?" Take penalty kicks in football, for example. The authors will tell you that shooting straight on is always the best bet. Also, did you know that there have been accidental situations where it made good economic sense for teachers to help students to cheat? The authors explore these questions and more through the lens of economists in easy-to-digest writing and with light-hearted humor.. Mr. Eddie Fung
Call no. : 330 LEV
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LIBRARY NEW ARRIVALS : ENGLISH FICTION & OTHERS Title
Author
821.00803521 GRA 100 great poems for boys
Leslie Pockell (ed.)
821.00803522 GRA 100 great poems for girls
Celia Johnson (ed.).
F CHE
The air he breathes
Brittainy C. Cherry
F ATW
Alias Grace
Magaret Atwood
F NIV
All the bright places (x2)
Jennifer Niven.
F BAR
Arthur & George
Julian Barnes.
F MCG
Beautiful Burn
Jamie McGuire
F MCG
Beautiful Oblivion
Jamie McGuire.
F MCG
Beautiful Redemption
Jamie McGuire
F MCG
Beautiful Sacrifice
Jamie McGuire.
428.6 WOO
Behind you
Jacqueline Woodson.
F PLA
The Bell Jar (x2)
Sylvia Plath.
F DUN
The betrayal
Helen Dunmore.
305.800973 COA
Between the world and me
Ta-Nehisi Coates.
818.602 OAK
Binge
Tyler Oakley.
F TOI
The blackwater lightship : a novel
Colm Toibin.
428.6 DIC
The blue hawk
Peter Dickinson.
428.6 SHE
Boys without names
Kashmira Sheth.
F JAM
A brief history of seven killings : a novel
Marlon James.
F GRE
Brighton rock (x2)
Grahame Greene
F TOI
Brooklyn : a novel
Colm Toibin.
F ISH
The buried giant
Kazuo Ishiguro.
F SAN
Calamity
Brandon Sanderson.
428.6 KAN
Chengli and the Silk Road caravan (x2)
Hildi Kang.
F MCE
The children act : a novel
Ian McEwan.
304.28 DIA
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive
Jared Diamond.
F HOO
Confess : a novel
Colleen Hoover.
428.6 DRA
Copper sun (x2)
Sharon M. Draper.
428.6 MAA
A court of thorns and roses
Sarah J. Maas.
428.6 HAR
Cuckoo song (x2)
Frances Hardinge.
F COE
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee.
428.6 EES
End of days
Susan Ee.
F FAU
Engleby : a novel
Sebastian Faulks.
F STO
Every last word
Tamara Ireland Stone.
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Call Number
Title
Author
428.6 YOO
Everything, everything
Nicola Yoon
428.6 HAR
A Face Like Glass
Frances Hardinge.
428.6 MEY
Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story
Marissa Meyer.
F CHE
Falling angels
Tracy Chevalier.
F MUN
Family furnishings : selected stories, 1995-2014
Alice Munro
F SIN
Feather boy
Nicky Singer.
F SAN
Firefight
Brandon Sanderson.
F OBI
The fishermen : a novel
Chigozie Obioma.
F HAW
The girl on the train
Paula Hawkins.
F AVE
Glass Sword
Victoria Aveyard.
F LEE
Go set a watchman
Harper Lee.
F ATK
A god in ruins : a novel
Kate Atkinson.
F BRA
The golden apples of the sun
Ray Bradbury.
F BRO
Golden son
Pierce Brown.
F DUN
The greatcoat
Helen Dunmore.
F ATW
The handmaid's tale
Margaret Atwood.
F CUN
The hours
Michael Cunningham.
F KAU
Illuminae
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff.
808 HUB
Influencing through argument
Robert B. Huber & Alfred C. Snider.
F KIN
The lacuna : a novel
Barbara Kingsolver.
F MOR
The lake house : a novel
Kate Morton.
428.6 COL
The Land of Stories : beyond the kingdoms
Chris Colfer
428.6 COL
The Land of Stories : the enchantress returns
Chris Colfer
428.6 COL
The Land of Stories : the Grimm warning
Chris Colfer
428.6 COL
The Land of Stories : the wishing spell
Chris Colfer
F HAN
The last time we say goodbye
Cynthia Hand.
658.4092082 SAN Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead
Sheryl Sandberg.
808.85 WWN
Lend me your ears : great speeches in history
William Safire (ed.)
428.0076 HAR
The lie
Helen Dunmore.
F ATK
Life after life : a novel
Kate Atkinson.
801 EAG
Literary theory : an introduction
Terry Eagleton.
F COL
The lone pilgrim : and other stories
Laurie Colwin.
F BAC
A Man Called Ove (x2)
Fredrik Backman.
428.6 MCC
The middle of nowhere (x2)
Geraldine McCaughrean.
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LIBRARY NEW ARRIVALS : ENGLISH FICTION & OTHERS Call Number
Title
Author
F HEM
A moveable feast : the restored edition
Ernest Hemingway
F BAC
My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry Fredrik Backm
F HOO
Never never
Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher
F HOO
Never never : Part two
Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher
F HOO
Never never : Part three
Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher
F HAN
The Nightingale : a novel
Kristin Hannah.
428.6 STE
Nimona
Noelle Stevenson.
F HOO
November 9
Colleen Hoover.
F ATK
One good turn : a novel
Kate Atkinson.
F ATW
Oryx and Crake
Magaret Atwood
428.6 WAL
Out of Shadows (x2)
Jason Wallace.
F KIN
The poisonwood Bible : a novel
Barbara Kingsolver.
818.5209 PAR
The portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
823.9 GRE
The power and the glory
Graham Greene
809.1 RIC
Practical criticism : a study of literary judgement
I.A. Richards.
F CAT
The professor's house
Willa Cather.
428.6 MAA
Queen of shadows
Sarah J. Maas.
616.858820092
The reason I jump : the inner voice of a
Naoki Higashida
thirteen-year-old boy with autism
F CHE
Remarkable creatures
Tracy Chevalier.
F KOO
Saint Odd : an Odd Thomas novel
Dean Koontz.
F GRE
The secret river
Kate Grenville.
F SCO
The secret wisdom of the earth
Chris Scotton.
843.8 FLA
Sentimental education : the story of a young man Gustave Flaubert
428.6 BAR
Six of crows
Leigh Bardugo.
428.6 MYE
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers.
F ATK
Started early, took my dog
Kate Atkinson.
F SAN
Steelheart
Brandon Sanderson.
F OZE
A tale for the time being
Ruth Ozeki.
792.09 CAR
Theatre : a very short introduction
Marvin Carlson.
F MIT
The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet : a novel David Mitchell.
809.9162 POO
Tragedy : a very short introduction
F GAI
Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances Neil Gaiman.
428.6 NOV
Uprooted
Adrian Poole. Naomi Novik.
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LIBRARY NEW ARRIVALS : ENGLISH FICTION & OTHERS Call Number
Title
Author
158.1 ROW
Very Good Lives : The Fringe Benefits of Failure
J.K. Rowling
and the Importance of Imagination F EUG
The virgin suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides.
428.6 LOC
We were liars
E. Lockhart.
340 HAR
What about law? : studying law at university
Catherine Barnard, et. (ed.)
F ATK
When will there be good news? : a novel
Kate Atkinson.
428.6 MOR
Why the whales came
Michael Morpurgo.
822.33 SHA
Will in the world : how Shakespeare became
Stephen Greenblatt.
Shakespeare F RUT
The winner's crime : a novel
Marie Rutkoski.
F RUT
The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski.
F RUT
The winner's kiss : a novel
Marie Rutkoski.
F CAR
Wise children
Angela Carter.
792.7028092 FRA A work in progress : a memoir
Connor Franta.
428.6 EES
World after
Susan Ee.
821.914 DU
The world's wife : poems
Carol Ann Duffy
F AHD
The wrath & the dawn
Renee Ahdieh
428.6 LUM
The young elites
Marie Lu
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"ALL BOOKS ARE EITHER DREAMS OR SWORDS, YOU CAN CUT, OR YOU CAN DRUG, WITH WORDS." -Amy Lowell SPECIAL THANKS TO MR. POMEROY, MS. HUANG AND MS. WONG TYPESETTING AND DESIGN BY CHERRIE CHUNG (5D13)
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