Book Week Scotland

 

This week, 26th November - 2nd December, is the first ever Book Week Scotland. To celebrate, we are having a Book Amnesty! Return any overdue books to us this week and get a reward...We are also joining in with the National Reading Hour, in conjunction with the English Department.

There has not been a better time to pop into the library and borrow from our wide range of fiction and non-fiction books, or simply get a recommendation.  So what are you waiting for?!

Spook of the Week!

As it's Hallowe'en this week, why not check out our range of spooky books?  We have everything from vampires, to ghosts, to werewolves, to golems!  Enjoy!

Book of the Week

A new term, and a new book as Book of the Week!

This week's new addition is The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett.  The book was shortlisted for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie medal, a prestigious prize for children's writers.

From the blurb:

'Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night, they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins...but at the end of a blackened street, they find a small green miracle: a zoo filled with animals in need of hope.'

Particularly good if you like a historical novel or an adventure story, snap it up before someone else does!

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.