Cambridge High School Library 2024

By: Keira Cass Location: FIC CASS Series: The Selection- Number Three ohhh I have been waiting and lots of our students have been waiting and asking and finally today Fishpond emailed me to say they have posted it!!!! So Cambridge High Students- first into my office Monday morning gets it.

By: A G Howard Location: FIC HOW Genre: Ramping up Alice in Wonderland- contemporary Fairytale This book has a seriously cool cover!!! "This book is very clever and the character Morpheus is an amazing manipulator and nothing it what is seems.It is all about being cursed with madness- or is it?" I loved this version of Alice in Wonderland!  Prisca- YR 13 Student at Cambridge High “No one knows what he or she is capable of until things are at their darkest.” When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secre...

By: James Kerr Location: NF 158 KER Genre: All Blacks and Leadership Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds. They follow the spearhead. They keep a blue head. They are good ancestors. Off course I am a fan,"THE" All Blacks define New Zealand, they are iconic, they like Gallipoli are our tangible nationhood. Right now they are on a winning streak of 17 consecutive wins, the most in all rugby history. Not only do show the world who we are as a nation- they do it to perfection. What makes them tick, as Kiwi's, as men, and as a team? This book is a gem, it is filled with succinct titbits about leadership, about the winning culture of our national team, it is full of whakatauki and it is inspirationa l.   I am a leader of an organisation and this book is really helping me not only in the "way" I do things, but also it is helping me define "why" I do thing!   In Legacy , best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s m...

By: Rainbow Rowell Location: FIC ROW Genre: Youth Fiction- Fan Fiction I have just been on to a Fan Fiction site... wow.  Fanfiction is when someone takes either the story or characters (or both) of a certain piece of work, whether it be a novel, tv show, movie, etc, and create their own story based on it. It is huge. Check out this site  https://www.fanfiction.net/book/ This book is based on Fan Fiction and it enters the world of Cath- a fanfic writer. She is immersed into the world to hide herself from the real one, and she takes 1000,s of online followers with her. It is just that it is not the real world, and no matter how hard you try to hide yourself online- the real world is forever gazing you in the eyes. “To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.” Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn...

By: The Australian Womans Weekly Location: NF 641.8 BAK Genre: CAKEand PUDDINGS Its Friday and I have been off sick all week, so no blogging from me all week- sorry about that. But when you are crook there are two things that cheer you up- nice warm sustaining winter soup and sumptuous plumpy hot cakes. Black forest Cupcakes, Butterfly cakes. Lemon Meringue Pie, Pear and Cinnamon Sugar Lattice pies, and best of all- Chocolate self saucing pudding. Yes we are a library, yes we do fiction, and I reckon we have one of the best collections of Youth Fiction in our region... but we also do cakes, and baking and recipe books. I also reckon we have an amazing collection of recipe books- all the big names! This book is a ripper - it has the everyday favorites, but it also has the opulent treats and the refined delicacies. To very student who takes this out- I place a charge, make me something!!!

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By: Nick Vujicic Location 269 VUJ- but I am going to just leave it around anywhere for you guys to pick up and read! Genre:Overcoming Bullying by  a hero and a role model  This guy is a hero, a legend, he is a man who demands to be listened too. The other week on YouTube I watched the Kid do a rap on Britain's got Talent , he did it with his mate and they wrote it. It was amazing- it was about being bullied because you are different. It takes the voice of a young lad, and a man with different abilities to showcase to the world that bullying is not OK. One of our staff today told of his bullied days at his High School- he reacted, did something dumb and ended up having to leave the school- he needed to read this book by Nick.   Stand Strong- You can overcome bullying- and other stuff that keeps you down. With no arms, no legs, and no defense ,  Nick Vujicic was once a bully’s target and knows what it feels like to be picked on and pushed around:  It mak...

By: Daniel Pennac Location: FIC PEN Genre: Fairy Tale x Foreign Lit. First of all the author of this book wrote the "Readers Bill of Rights" below.  I love them. This book is a fable, it is  all about respect, understanding, selflessness and friendship. It is the story of two, both hurt, both wanting to regain somethings that have been lost, and belief that maybe they can be found. It is a short book only 115 pages long, but it packs a punch. And it goes where I love too... Reminiscent of THE LITTLE PRINCE, Daniel Pennac’s fable of a boy and a wolf who dare to meet each other’s gaze unfolds with humor, poignancy, and philosophical resonance. They were born worlds apart, the wolf from the Far North and the boy from Yellow Africa. Now all that separates them is a cage at the zoo. The wolf has lost much on his journey, including an eye and his beloved pack. But when he finally consents to trust the strange, still little boy who has been watching him ― to meet his ...

I really want you all to read this book before this movie is released. This is a 10 minute trailer that came out yesterday and I reckon it is going to be one of those those that start off under the radar and then explodes into enormity. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a stunning book, its large story packed into minimal words- its ideas immense. READ THE BOOK FIRST!!!!

By: Jennifer Brown Location: FIC BRO Genre: Youth Fiction A picture is worth a thousand words. Snap Chat. I like snap chat- it keeps me in contact with my kids, my mates, and one little picture can say so much. Last weekend I went to  National Park- it is in the middle of the North Island, it was stunning, I went mountain biking and took a snap chat- sent it to a few people and without me saying anything- it said heaps. It is just that so many people- and I guess most of all- teenagers- abuse it, they are naive as to its power and and other malicious characters who have no scruples in how they use inappropriate material.   Thousand Words is somewhat of a modern cautionary tale. A timely and relevant topic of discussion - it is about sexting. Pictures do say a thousand words, sometimes the wrong ones. Ashleigh has no idea of the consequences when she sends a picture of herself naked in a text to her boyfriend while she is in an intoxicated state. After a breakup...

By: Sheila Kennan and Nathan Fox Location: GRA KEE Genre: Graphic Novel- War Some war heroes heard the wind whistling over a hidden trip wire. Some war heroes sniffed out a sniper 1,000 yards away. Some war heroes stood tall . . . on four legs! Dogs - It is going to be a sad office this week as my colleague says goodbye to her dog, I had that trauma last year. We had our dog for 17 years, the memories, fun, mischief and company of Rex is incomparable. My life never depended on my dog though, but he added bucket loads to it- I tell you that dog could sing- yep sing- he probably though would be useless at war! DOGS OF WAR is a graphic novel that tells the stories of the canine military heroes of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. This collection of three fictional stories was inspired by historic battles and real military practice. Each story tells the remarkable adventures of a soldier and his service dog and is rendered with fascinating and beautiful detail, ...

 By: Ian McDoanld Location: FIC MCD Genre|: Sci Fi, Alternate Worlds with some Steam Punk. Series: Everness Series- three books! Some lines grab you... like... "He’s got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking " . A dude in a alternative world who can cook a curry- this has to be good. Then there is the " Infundibulum" - what a cool word! It has quantum physics, mulitple universes , its multicultural, multi-dimensional and multi-planetary. There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel earths. When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this teenager has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse—the Infundibulum—the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it....