New Books

Book Reviews featured in the upcoming Library Gazette

Confessions of a liar, thief and failed sex god by Bill Condon YF COND
If you loved Craig Silvery's Jasper Jones you will be hooked on Bill Condon's latest novel.
It's 1967. Young Neil is about to lose his brother to War, be faced with the brutal death of one friend and discover another, he falls in love and unwillingly treads a path that may lead to murder.
A great gut twisting read, highly recommended for older readers.

Matty forever by Elizabeth Fensham JF FENS
With a friend like Matty nothing else matters. A beautiful tale of friendship, racial tolerance and family, that could be set in any Australian suburban community. Ideal for children aged 7 to 9, this story is broken into short accessible chapters and will be easy for children to emphathise with.

The greatest blogger in the world by Andrew McDonald JF MCDO
Charlie's mission is to Be the Hero, get the Girl and Save the Day, oh, and win the Greatest Blogger in the World Competition. He has plenty to Blog about – a mate with an illegal red-cordial business at school, a little brother who only wears a tuxedo, a mother who wants world dominanion and a duck named Barcode. A quirky book that is targeted for years 5 and 6, but is a challenging read.

Pink by Lili Wilkinson YF WILK
Ava is intelectual, uber-cool, black, seriouse and a lesbian; But she wants to be perky, pink and popular. So she is stripping the black from her hair, hanging with the pastels and joining the school musical. Ava is determined to be everything the world wants her to be. Pink is witty, sharp and chocked full of awesome.

The poison throne by Celine Kiernan YF KIER
Set in a fantastical medieval Europe, fifteen year old Wynter Moorehawke is a unique girl; qualified in a man's trade, best friends to the princes, speaks to the kings' cats and knows a few spectres to boot. This first book of the Moorehawke Trilogy is compelling storytelling. If you liked Phillip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy you will love this.
Eight must read picture books:

Crazy hair written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean : Obscurly amazing!

Book News!

Australian Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Winners
Older Readers : Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan

Younger Readers : Perry Angel’s Suitcase by Glenda Millard

Early Childhood : How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham

Picture Book of the Year : Collecting Colour by Kylie Dunstan

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books : Alive in the Death Zone by Lincoln Hall

All of these great titles are now available at your library.

New Young Adult Books requested by you!

Margaret Mahy's The magician of Hoad

Meg Cabot's Code Name Cassandra and When lightning strikes

Deborah Ellis' Bifocal

Jennifer Roy's Yellow star

Darren Shan's Death’s shadow

Brian James' Dirty liar

New Books for November

Hey, I forgot to tell you about the new books list for November, and yes I know I have the wrong month on the cover (a blond moment- well blond streaks anyway).

Some of the new kids fiction books are:
Terror in cubicle four by B. Strange
UFO afloat by Dave Hackett
The Dragon Prince by T. Nhat Hanh
The wizard of Rondo by Emily Rodda
Werewolf versus dragon by M. Morgan

Some of the new youth books are:
The cat kin by Nick Green
Buffy: The quotable slayer
Rich dad poor dad for teens by R. Kiyosaki
Nation by Terry Pratchett

Some of the new youth graphic novels are:
Avril Lavigne’s make 5 wishes by C. D’Errico
Master of the clow by Clamp
World embryo by D. Moriyama
The knockout makers by K. Hashimoto
Good as Lily by Derek Kirk Kim
Kimmie66 by A. Alexovich

Some of the new kids graphic novels are:
Geobreeders by Akihiro Ito
Baby & me by Marimo Ragawa
Cowa! by Akira Toriyama (same guys who made Dragon Ball Z)
Kilala Princess by Rika Tanaka
Garfield pigs out by Jim Davis

There is also a very long list of baby board books in the book list, that's because in the span of two weeks about 15 mothers said 'why don't you buy more board books?'. I do buy board books, in the last 6 months alone the library has spent almost $5000 on them. It's just that I can't spend all the money on board books, or we would have no kids or teen fiction or information books, or graphic novels. There are of course many, many more new books at the library, a selection (with some reviews) is listed in the new books list but also check out the library gazette for more reviews pick up either in print at your library.

Happy reading.

Reading matters

You will notice on the right a few links for good book sites. If you know of any good book sites let me know and I will add them in. Good book sites only please!
You will also notice Pink Books listed there, there not pretty pink books or even books written by that Pop Diva Alecia Moore (aka P!nk) , but rather Gay and Lesbian themed books.
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