Death cure : the exciting conclusion to The maze runner trilogy

I've just read it and it was very exciting and tied up all the loose ends. If you haven't read this series yet, you need to start with The maze runner then The scorch trials. These books are dystopian fiction similar to The hunger games. Highly recommended.


If you like these kind of books then have a look at the reading list in the OPAC called dystopian fiction. You will find 82 titles listed there. Enjoy!

This new book looks fantastic.

Check out the trailer here. We have the book and it looks like it's going to be the next big series.

Upper Hutt Library Quiz

We sent one team to the Upper Hutt Library to compete in their general knowledge quiz that they run to celebrate NZ Post Childen's Book Awards. Congratulations to these students who came third overall.

Guess how many people are on the waiting list for The Hunger Games book at Auckland Public Libary.

Now read this NZ Herald articles to find out the answer
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10802788

Who would've believed it. I've checked at our public library and they have eight copies with 27 reserves. We have copies available right now as we're lucky to be able to offer some of the English Department copies for you to read. This changes on a daily basis though so be quick. We do have a waiting list for the two sequels as we don't have class sets of these, but our waiting list is not that big.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards

These are the books that are short-listed for this year that we have in our library.

Young Adult Fiction

The bridge by Jane Higgins
Calling the gods by Jack Lasneby
Dirt bomb by Fleur Beale
Sacrifice by Joanna Orwin

Yes by Deborah Burnside

Junior Fiction

Just Jack by Adele Broadbent

The travelling restaurant by Barbara Else

Picture books

Shaolin burning by Ant Sang

Non-fiction

Kimble Bent Malcontent by Chris Grosz
The life cycle of the tuatara by Betty Brownlie
New Zealand Hall of fame : 50 remarkable Kiwis by Maria Gill and Bruce Potter

Nice day for a war : Adventures of a Kiwi soldier in World War 1 by Chris Slane and Matt Elliott

Go here to vote for your favourite book onlinehttp://www.booksellers.co.nz/%5Bbooksellers-category%5D/%5Bbooksellers-category-lvl2%5D/vote-childrens-choice-award-2012




























Do you have an E-Reading device?

We'd like to know how many of our students have E-Readers. Please comment and let us know what you have. If you are reading E-Books do you know that you can now borrow them from the Upper Hutt City library for free? It's easy and you get to borrow the books and download them onto your device for one week and then they simply disappear so you don't have to remember to return your books to avoid getting overdue fines. If you need to renew them, then you simply reborrow them so long as no one else is waiting for that title.
You do need to have a password attached to your public library card, but that's easy to set up.
To find out more click here
http://www.upperhuttcity.com/Ebooks

We don't have E-Books available for borrowing from our school library yet as we are wating to see how many of you have devices first. Let us know if you think it will be a good idea to have this service available.

Welcome back to school - especially welcome to the new year nines

Do you love libraries and reading? Why not become a student librarian this year? You will learn how to issue and return books, shelve books, help with displays and complete certificate work.

Your privilages will be - eating lunch in the library office on your duty day, reading the new books first and writing reviews, creating posters & aiding with displays, recognition by way of certificates, references when applying for work, new skills learnt and experience gained and end of term treats.