LRC Newsletter - March 2014

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Way of the Warrior – Chris Bradford

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Ways to Live Forever – Sally Nicholls

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Dog Days – Jeff Kinney

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The Ugly Truth – Jeff Kinney

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The General – Robert Muchamore

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Hollow Pike – James Dawson

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Bunker Diary – Kevin Brooks

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The Hostage – Sophie McKenzie

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Switched – Amanda Hocking

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Conspiracy 365 – Gabrielle Lord


Collect your WBD vouchers from the LRC

Participating bookshops will be displaying World Book Day posters and notices in their windows and in store.

Either purchase one of the ÂŁ1 books on the left or put the voucher towards a book or audio book over ÂŁ2.99

Happy Reading






Congratulations to the following students for achieving the highest points scored from Reading Practice quizzes in February, please collect your prizes

Caitlin Buller

126.3

Matthew Votta Ellie Drake-Sexton Matthew Clegg Harriet Dunn Kyra Usher Gathsara Seekkuge Millie Allen Megan Richardson Oliver Batchelor

103.1 97.4 72.1 69.5 54.0 51.7 51.2 42.1 42.0

ÂŁ10 Amazon Voucher

Bookmark/Pen & Chocolate Bar


Would you like to join in? You can join a book club or read them by yourself. Come to the LRC for more information.

The Awards are rounded off with an amazing Presentation Evening on Friday 11th July where you get to find out who has won and meet the authors.

Further information on the website: http://amazingbookawards.co.uk/


Displays Chris Bradford Bodyguard and Young Samurai

All about the amazing book ‘Divergent’

If you liked The Hunger Games you will love this


Mrs Langley’s Book of the Month

A truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girl's life, as her mum leaves home, travellers set up camp in the family's field, her older brother goes off the rails, and she falls in love for the very first time. Opening with a funeral, Iris is mourning the boy in the casket - but who is it? Sam, her tearaway brother, or Trick, her tentative boyfriend? Over one long hot summer, we find out just how their three lives were turned upside-down.

Pets Caught Reading -

– The Winner

Congratulations to Caitlin Ford who wins a £10 Amazon vouchers and other goodies. All the competition entries are on show in the LRC. If you have any others you would like to add please send them in.


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Thursday 13th March - Year 8’s

We are very excited to be hosting an event with Chris Bradford in March. Chris is the author of the Young Samurai and BODYGUARD series. He has written 15 fiction books to date, been published in more than 20 languages and nominated for over 25 book awards, including the shortlist for the Red House Children’s Book Award 2009 and winner of the Northern Ireland Book Awards 2011. Chris says, "I write the type of books I'd want to read - books filled with relentless action, believable characters and a plot that twists and turn through the pages!" Chris will be pleased to sign any books you have and Waterstones will be selling books on the day if you wish to purchase any.


New Book Additions

New French Resources

In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world. When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken. Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans, where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go. Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose? Staff Book Club

PIG takes advantage of a free offer to set his mum up on the Kissy Kissy Online Dating Dite ("Meet your hero - hundreds of hunky men free for the online single landy.") When PIG invites two of them to meet his mum (at the same time) things go from worst to even worse than that. Do people on online dating sites always tell lies?.


PIG hates needles, so he uses his skills to avoid the school vaccinations. But then comes a history lesson on the Black Death. Terrifies, he tries to rejoin the queue - only to find it's not that easy. Surely it's onlly a matter of time before he becomes a victim of the plague.

A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she sees that what she is really looking for is her own past. Staff Library 1942 and the world is at war. It is a war that has already shattered families and devastated countries. But for some, it will also mean the greatest of adventures. In a burns hospital in Sussex, a beautiful young singer performs to a ward full of injured soldiers. Saba is captivating and one pilot, Dom, shudders as her gaze turns his way. He can't bear her to see his scars but resolves to write to her once they have healed. The world is on the brink of enormous change. Saba's journey as a singer with ENSA takes her to the fading glamour of Alexandria and the heat and decadence of Turkey. On the glamorous Middle Eastern social circuit, Saba rubs shoulders with double agents and diplomats, movie stars and smugglers. Some want her voice, some her friendship, and some the secrets she is perfectly placed to discover... JASMINE NIGHTS is a tale of decadence and destruction, of love and of danger. It is the captivating love story set in an extraordinary world. Staff Book Club

Kyla's memory was erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost for ever. Or so she thought. After the shocking events of SLATED and FRACTURED, we return to Kyla's oppressive world as she tries to make sense of her life and everything around her.


Set in a disturbing near-future world, this is the conclusion to an engrossing, fast-paced trilogy that establishes Teri Terry as a master thriller writer. Book 3 in the acclaimed SLATED trilogy. August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan - his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins. But life at the samurai school is a constant fight for survival. Even with his friend Akiko by his side, Jack is singled out by bullies and treated as an outcast. With courage in his heart and his sword held high, can Jack prove himself and face his deadliest rival yet? A truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girl's life, as her mum leaves home, travellers set up camp in the family's field, her older brother goes off the rails, and she falls in love for the very first time. Opening with a funeral, Iris is mourning the boy in the casket - but who is it? Sam, her tearaway brother, or Trick, her tentative boyfriend? Over one long hot summer, we find out just how their three lives were turned upside-down. Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part . . . Of all the things Anya expected to find atthe bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend--even a ghost--is just what she needs. Or so she thinks.


When Travis Delaney’s parents die in a car crash, Travis is devastated. In a bid to pull himself out of his grief, he starts to look into the last case they were investigating at the private investigation agency they ran. What starts as a minor distraction soon becomes a sinister, unbelievable mystery – and Travis is determined to solve it. Why were his parents looking for a missing boy when the boy’s family says he isn’t missing? Where is the boy himself? And why would a man who is in surveillance photos taken by Travis’s parents turn up at their funeral? As Travis searches for answers, he starts to have the chilling realization that the question he should be asking is the one he most wants to avoid: Was the accident that killed his parents really what it seemed? An intriguing, exciting adventure from a master of suspense. The clock is ticking. There are 88 days until the end of the world... Peter's life seemed pretty normal. Until he and his friends, Luke and Jordan, discovered that everyone outside the town of Phoenix was going to die. Now, the all-powerful Shackleton Co-operative


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