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Better Reading Top 50 Kids Books list has arrived! Click on the image to pull up the full list.
Every year Better Reading release the list of the top 50 kids books Aussies love to read. This list has a mixture of picture books, classics, junior high, and YA novels. This year includes books such as Prison Healer by Lynette Noni, Half my Luck by Samera Kamaleddine, and Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F Steadman. Is your favourite on here?
CBCA's Book of the Year Winners have been announced! Congratulations to Rebecca Lim for Tiger Daughter winning the older readers category! Honours went to Felicity Castagna's Girls in Boys' Cars and Steven Herrick's How to Repaint a Life.
Click here to watch the announcement video presented by Claire Hooper
This year, the CBCA announced a Shadow Judge panel, made up of school age readers. They would also judge the shortlist with the same criteria as the official judges and pick their own winners from these books. You can watch the announcement video here.
The Shadowers' Choice Award went to Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief by Katrina Nannestad
Want to learn more? Click on the images to watch interviews with authors from the CBCA shortlist.
Or check out these reviews by author & comedian, Oliver Phommavanh.
Tristan Banck's latest book has landed at the Langer Library. Check out the exciting book trailer to find out more!
"If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do it to save him? At what cost? Nash Hall's dad is a criminal who just can't seem to go straight. He wants Nash to help him commit a robbery. A big one. The trouble is, Nash's mum is a cop. And the robbery is at Nash's school. But Dad owes a lot of money to some very dangerous people and if Nash doesn't help him do the job, it could cost both their lives."
If you want a sneak peek, click on the book cover to read the first two chapters.
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Use your school ID number and the Gale password to access Sora.
Use your school ID number and Firefly password to access Wheelers
Books, eBooks and Audiobooks
(Click on the image to download the book)
Use your school ID number and the Gale password to access Sora.
Use your school ID number and Firefly password to access Wheelers
Use your school ID number and the Gale password to access Sora.
Use your school ID number and Firefly password to access Wheelers
All the Best Liars One will do it by dying,
another by lying, a third by
taking the fall...
Best friends Syd, Rain and Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out. When a deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of high school, nothing will ever be the same. In the end, each of them will escape - but not in the way any of them expects.
Underground
by Mirranda Burton
Congratulations to Mirranda Burton whose graphic novel Underground won the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2022. Note: this book is for older readers only.
Borrow it from the Langer Langer today!
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Book Depository has gone and compiled their list of the best books of all time. Click here to check it out. But did you know that the Langer Library has most of these books?
Spotlight on:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
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