New books after a long time...

Some new books on the shelves this week:

The Zac Power Test Drive series: these are great little books, very easy to read, but full of action. Zac Power is a 12 year old boy whose family members are all spies. Zac's job in this series is to test drive new spy equipment for the spy organisation GIB. http://www.zacpower.com . The website has games and other cool stuff.

The Zac Power Mega Mission series: same characters but for older kids. Zac goes on missions in this series, in one he rescues his long lost grandpa from the clutches of an evil organisation, in another he has to defeat an enemy but he doesn't know who the enemy is, and so on.

Great new Search Engine for Australian Schools

This is a new customised Google search engine developed for Australian Primary & Secondary students.
Although it does a full Google search the results give priority to reputable sites recommended by Australian teachers/librarians.

http://www.studysearch.com.au/

Sex Ed Links

Here are some links to a few interesting Sex ed websites:

Your Sex Health (from Melbourne Uni)

Sex etc. (from Rutgers University in the US)

Teaching Resources from the DEECD

Stocktake

Almost finished the picture book stocktake! Phew!

Web OPAC up & running

The library Web Catalogue is up and running again. Use the link on the Intranet page to get there.

Also if you want to be able to use the OPAC to see which book you have borrowed or check the due date, see me and I can add your user name etc on to the log in list.

Some new books from the past few days:
Mistik Lake - Martha Brooks ("a novel about trusting your heart, and about the bad choices and secret suffering that haunts those who don't".)

Broken Sky - Chris Wooding (Ryushi & his sister Kia have awsome powers and they've just discovered why... A two volume series about their adventures.)

A Rose for the Anzac boys - Jackie French (World War I as seen through the eyes of three young women who start a canteen in France to car for wounded soldiers.)

Virus on Orbis 1 - PJ Haarsma - (Science fiction - humans who can enter computers with their minds.)

New Books today

Point Blanc: the graphic novel - Anthony Horowitz (the second in the Alex Rider series - the first, Stormbreaker is available too)

UFO - Unavoidable Family Outing - Dave Hackett (described on the cover as "a crazy road trip for the whole family!)

Igraine the Brave - Cornelia Funke (more magic from the author of Dragonrider)

The Time Travelling Cat & the Roman Eagle - Julia Jarman (Cats, time-travel & Roman history - what more could you ask for!)

In too deep - DC Grant (A book about surfing, bullying, and family issues)

Welcome!

Welcome to the Sherbrooke Community School Library blog - The Source! SCS is a P-12 school in Sassafras, Victoria, Australia.

Hopefully this blog will be used to get information to the school community about recently catalogued books. I'd like to get reviews of some of the titles in the library - written by kids & staff. I'll also try to inform people of what is going on in the library, in words & photos.

Whatever!