Scottish Children's Book Awards Shortlist

The Shortlist for the Scottish Children's Book Awards has been announced- In the Older Readers Category the shortlist is as follows:

-The 13^th Horseman by Barry Hutchison

-Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

-The Prince Who Walked With Lions by Elizabeth Laird

Carnegie 2012

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness has won the 2012 Carnegie Prize. For the first time in the prizes history, the same book has also won the Carnegies sister prize, the Kate Greenaway Award for the illustrations by Jim Kay.

More information can be found here: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_2012_winner_carn.html

Synopsis:

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming.... This monster is something different though. Something wild. And it wants the truth.

Book of the Week

Our Book of the Week is:  'City of Bones' by Cassandra Clare. This series come highly recommended by Eilidh and Rachel, two S5 pupils.

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family - and the battle for the fate of the world. We have all of the books in the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series in the library. Please ask to reserve.

New Books in May

Lots of new books came into the library this week. New titles are on the 'New in the Library' table- If the book you wish to borrow is not there please ask and we can put you on the reservation list. A list of new titles is below.

Junior Fiction

Black Dawn- Rachel Caine

Out of Sight, Out of Time- Ally Carter

VIII- Harriet Castor

City of Lost Souls- Cassandra Clare

The Death Cure- James Dashner

Fear- Michael Grant

Paper Towns- John Green

We'll always have summer- Jenny Han

Department 19: The Rising- Will Hill

The Intern- Dillon Khan

Falling Fast- Sophie McKenzie

Killing Honour- Bali Rai

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpents Shadow- Rick Riordan

Under the Never Sky- Veronica Rossi

Insurgent- Veronica Roth

Brothers to the death- Darren Shan

The One Dollar Horse- Lauren St John

Senior Fiction

The land of the painted caves- Jean M Auel

On Canaan's side- Sebastian Barry

An invisible sign of my own- Aimee Bender

Red Mist- Patricia Cornwell

Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman

Pigeon English- Stephen Kelman

The Dogs of Riga- Henning Mankell

A Storm of Swords: Part 1- George RR Martin

A Storm of Swords: Part 2- George RR Martin

Pure- Andrew Miller

Graphic Novels

Bakuman Volume 1

Essential Avengers

Reference and Textbooks

Folio Writing Skills for Higher and Intermediate 2 English

How to pass. Flash Revise! Higher Biology

How to pass. Flash Revise! Higher Chemistry

How to pass. Flash Revise! Higher Maths

Stop what you're doing and read this

Book of the Week

This week's Book of the Week is:  'Ruby Redfort:  Look Into My Eyes' by Lauren Child.

If you liked the Clarice Bean books when you were younger, maybe you wished that her favourite fictional heroine, Ruby Redfort, really existed?  Well, wish no more, as Lauren Child gives life to this character in a book aimed at teens instead of tweens!

13-year-old Ruby is recruited by a secret agency to become a code breaker.  She's super-smart and always cool...but can she keep her mouth shut?