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2025 Book of the Year Awards – Notables
Colin Thompson's book series "The Floods" has a new movie adaptation: "My Freaky Family" releasing October 24th 2024!
Better Reading Top 100 Books of 2024 list has arrived! Click on the image to pull up the full list.
Every year Aussies vote on their top 100 books to read. This list has a mixture of many genres, and many of these books can be found in the library. This year includes books such as Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton, Honeybee by Craig Silvey, and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros alongside classics including Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
On Monday April 28th, Langer library is excited to welcome Brisbane author Richard Yaxley. His novels include Joyous and Moonbeam (2013), This Is My Song (winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award and winner of the ACU Book of the Year Award) and The Happiness Quest, a CBCA Notable for Older Readers. More recent novels are A New Kind Of Everything (2020), Harmony (2021), and Leonardo Forever (2023).
Richard is also a past winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Drink the Air (2010). In 2011, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM).
In Term 2 St Peters will welcome Solli Raphael. Solli is an award-winning author, poet, advocate, acclaimed keynote speaker, former ambassador to many charities and non-profits, and a founder and director of two organisations.
Named an icon of 21st-century poetry, Solli has broken barriers in making poetry more accessible and relatable for everyone. His poetry has racked up critical acclaim and awards, been featured in university textbooks and documentaries, and on over 50 radio and TV appearances.
Solli has authored three books of his own, which have received accolades for their capacity to engage children and teenagers in poetry and social concerns. His debut book Limelight, and his second book, Spotlight, were published in 2018 and 2020, respectively. Shortly after publication in North America in 2019, Limelight won a prestigious Nautilus Book Award for contributing to social change.
Season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty is set to return to Amazon Prime! The first two seasons, which followed the first two books, were released in 2022 and 2023. Jenny Han's stories have adapted well to the screen with her 2014 book To All the Boys I've Loved Before brought to Netflix in 2018 receiving positive reviews! This time however, Jenny has been creatively involved in all stages with Amazon MGM. She has noted a main change for the third novel's screen adaptation, to account for the year delay in production, is the two year time jump, with Bella and Jeremiah's relationship reaching its two-year anniversary!
The Langer Library has copies of all books (and an eBook version of It's not summer without you) if you're looking for a good holiday read!
Tomorrow series writer and author of more than 40 books, John Marsden is being celebrated with a new prize in his honour. The Premier of Victoria has announced the John Marsden Prize for Writing for Young Adults for the 2026 prize season and will be worth $25,000 dollars. Information about the Victorian Premier's Literary Award can be found at the Wheeler's Centre website
Check out John Marsden's complete Tomorrow series at the library!
Carole Wilkinson, Australian author and frequent St Peters visiting author, published in 2003. Its enduring popularity has seen it recently turned into a movie! Released January 16th, it is currently in most theatres including Event and Reading.
The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards began in 2008. The Awards recognise individual excellence and the contribution Australian authors make to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. On 12 September the 2024 winners were announced in Canberra. The YA winner this year is.....
Shortlisted:
Let's Never Speak of this Again. Ella and I have been best friends since grade one. We can spend hours talking about everything and nothing. We know each other’s greatest fears, things that irrationally annoy us, and ideal career if money and skill weren’t an issue. If there was only one Hartford Bakery brownie left in the whole world and it was somehow in my possession, Ella is the only person I’d consider sharing it with. Life is pretty good for sixteen-year-old Abby. Okay, her grandma doesn’t remember things anymore, her relationship with her mum is increasingly strained and she accidentally kissed her cousin’s cousin on the weekend, so things aren’t exactly perfect. But everything is manageable with her best friend, Ella, by her side. And with Ella’s brother, Will, interesting and attentive, on the sidelines. When new girl Chloe arrives, Abby is pleased to be the one to show her around, to welcome her to the group. But Abby doesn’t imagine Chloe fitting in so well or quite so quickly. And before long Abby is feeling just a little left out, a little unsure of Ella’s friendship. In a moment of anger and confusion she wishes something bad would happen. When it does -- with tragic consequences -- everything shifts again. And Abby has to face her own feelings and work out what friendship really means.
Click below to see the list of recommended reads! After you've read some titles in term 2 and 3 get ready to vote for your favorite book in early October. Winner announced at the end of term 4!
The Greatest Thing
by Sarah Winifred Searle
Congratulations to Sarah for winning the Young Adult Book award in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023! Borrow from the library today!
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