tuesday 29th june 2021 lrc newsletter
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LRC NEWSLETTER
NEW FICTION BOOKS
We have lots of new additions to the LRC this month. Featured below are
some of the top fiction picks:
Children of Blood and Bone, a fantasy novel set in an alternative version
of West Africa, follows the sixteen-year-old Zélie Abebola in her fight against
oppression. This action-packed adventure is a winner of the Goodreads
Choice Awards 2018 and is soon to have its own film adaptation.
Cinder and The Wrath and the Dawn, also pictured above, are both retell-
ings of classic fairy-tales. Cinder reimagines Cinderella in the futuristic city
of New Beijing, in which cyborgs live alongside humans. The Wrath and the
Dawn is a young adult retelling of One Thousand and One Nights.
If you enjoy mysteries and thrillers, Red Nemesis, which tells the story of a
young James Bond on a mission to uncover the suspicious circumstances
surrounding his father’s death, is the book for you. Similarly, in A Good
Girl’s Guide to Murder, our protagonist, Pippa Fitz-Amobi, gets more than
she’s bargained for when she decides to do a school project on a local
murder case. This book was highly requested by pupils, so if you want to
borrow it get yourself down to the LRC!
If you prefer humorous stories, we have lots of new arrivals to the LRC,
including the thirteenth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, The Meltdown.
Tuesday 29th June 2021
In this newsletter find out:
What has been happening in the LRC this month;
Information about our brand new range of fiction and non-fiction books;
Updates on the book cover challenge and other upcoming plans for the
LRC.
PRIDE MONTH & DIVERSITY WEEK
Thanks to Miss Lichfield, we have had some great activities for Diversity
Week running in the LRC. Pupils have had the chance to:
Create their own diversity/
ally badge design;
Decorate their own Pride
flag;
Read one of the LRC’s
LGBTQ+ books;
Design an eye-catching
poster promoting Diversity
Week.
The photograph on the right
shows just a handful of the
fantastic badges made by
pupils in the LRC.
A special thank you to the
Year 8 pupils who helped Miss
Lichfield make the designs into
badges!
BOOK COVER CHALLENGE
I enlisted the help of Mrs Gilman and, all the way from Thomas Rotherham
College’s LRC, Mrs Bartlett to help judge the book cover competition. It was
a difficult task to choose the winners, as all the submissions were brilliant.
We are just waiting on the arrival of the Amazon vouchers for the 1st place
winners and then winners will then be announced, so watch this space!
TOPICAL NON-FICTION
Libraries, as hubs of information and spaces for
learning, have a responsibility to help people
learn about the world around them. Therefore, we
have recently sourced some non-fiction books on
the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
From mid-April, tensions between Israel and the
Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip spiralled,
erupting in eleven days of violent fighting.
On 21st May, a fragile truce was agreed upon.
However, is was not the start, and nor is it the
end, of the violence. The Hundred Years’ War
on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi highlights this,
going back to 1917 to examine the conflict.
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in
Palestine is Ibtisam Barakat’s biography. She
writes of life as a teenager in Palestine from 1972
to 1981, revealing what it is like to grow up in a
politically tumultuous area.
Tuesday 29th June 2021
COMING UP
The questionnaire sent to pupils just before half-term asked which fantasy
location they would most want to visit. The overwhelming majority said that
they would choose Hogwarts from the Harry Potter series, as shown by
the pie-chart below:
We are going to design a display in the LRC using these responses, so
thank you to everyone who answered the questionnaire.
This week:
I am inviting any pupils who are interested to write a short review or
description of their favourite book, which can be featured on a display in
the LRC.
I will provide coloured card and paper for these to be written on, so please
visit the LRC to complete this. Email [email protected] if you have
any questions.
YEAR 8 FRIENDSHIP GROUP
With the help of Mrs Samuels, every Thursday at 12:40pm the LRC is
hosting a Friendship Group for Year 8 pupils (soon to be Year 9s!). Please
note, the LRC will be closed to other year groups during the second half of
lunch on Thursday.
This is a chance to meet new people and get some support. Take part in:
Mindfulness colouring;
Henna;
And games. (Uno, in particular, is very popular and we have a new set in
the LRC!)
Tuesday 29th June 2021