Bookish Web Sites

Go behind the scenes of theYoung Sherlock Holmes series - book 1 available from the Library: http://www.youngsherlock.com/

Try some of the recipes from teen cook Sam Stern or borrow one of his cookbooks from the Library:
http://www.samstern.co.uk/

"Lightning-paced, blood-curdling fun. I wish I'd been able to visit Scream Street when I was a kid!" Darren Shan
Visit Tommy Donbavand's Scream Street site or borrow books 1-4 from the Library:
http://www.screamstreet.co.uk/

Joseph Delaney Giveaway

Win a set of all seven books in The Spook's Series by Joseph Delaney on the fantastic Wondrous Reads blog at http://tinyurl.com/2vxwcta. All you need to do is enter your name and e-mail address to be in with a chance!

Carnegie/Greenaway Winners

The winners of the CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway medals were announced today as:

Carnegie Winner -The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Greenaway Winner - Harry & Hopper Illustrated by Freya Blackwood

You can watch a video from the awards ceremony and read more about the winners on the award's website.

Stewart and Riddell

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell have written a new book Wyrmeweald: Returner's Wealth. Read the first chapter at http://tinyurl.com/39kwlxj

Book of the Week

Where I Belong by Gillian Cross

There are guns and bandits in this story. And supermodels. And there's drought and starvation too. Are you wondering how they can all come together? Well, that's how life is these days. Things don't happen neatly, in separate little places. We're all caught by the great spider's web of media that spans the world. That's where this story is set. The world. It's the story of Abdi and Khadija and Freya (that's me) and what happened to us because of Somalia ...

Find out more at http://tinyurl.com/23ehbxy