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It looks as though lots of schools across Scotland will be closed for part or most of today. I’ve checked the council website for Dumfries and Galloway and Annan Academy is closed all day today – Thursday 8th December.
Of course, your first instinct is to go back to bed but why not take a book with you. There are lots of book suggestions on this blog or perhaps there’s a book on a shelf somewhere that you’ve been meaning to look at but haven’t had the time.
Whatever you do today, stay safe.
Monster Book Week draws to a close tomorrow. Don’t miss out on your chance to take part in the Monster Book Hunt and ‘What am I?’ competitions. Make sure you hand in your competition forms to Mrs Turner in the library by the end of the day on Friday 4 November.
By Monday the monsters may have gone but the library remains a great place to find books to suit every taste. You can also revise for exams, do your homework, look up information or even get involved with the Library Magazine, The Blurb.
Thanks to everyone who has taken part in Book Week.
Those of you who collected sponsors for the Sponsored Read have until Wednesday 16th November to hand in your sponsor form and sponsor money to your Tutor (or to the school office).
… check out these books.
The Fear is the third book in Charlie Higson’s series about zombies in London. You’ll find information on the first two books in the series – The Enemy and The Dead – on the Books for Boys page. The series continues next year (2012) with The Sacrifice. Be warned, many of your favourite characters do not survive.
The Undead by Kirsty McKay is set in Scotland. New girl Bobby is on a school ski trip to Av
iemore. She’s already convinced that it’s the school trip from Hell (except that it’s freezing cold) even before everyone who gets off the bus at the roadside cafe turns into a zombie. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Bobby and the few other survivors (including bad boy Smitty) are trapped by the falling snow and blocked roads.
The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago isn’t really about zombies at all – at least not slow, dim-witted ones. When Will Rutter suddenly discovers that his next-door neighbour, his maths teacher and the assistant principal of his school are all walking corpses and no-one else seems to have noticed, he is forced to run for his life.
He is taken to a secret location where he meets the Undertakers, a group of children who, like him, are able to See the Corpses in their true form. The Undertakers are the first and only line of defence against the ever-growing army of Corpses who, unlike zombies, are clever and cunning and cannot be easily defeated. If you cut off the head of a Corpse or even chop off its arms and legs, it simply transfers to the nearest dead body.
Unfortunately for Will, the Corpses are especially interested in getting their dead hands on him.
If you prefer ghosts to zombies, then The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade may be just what you’re looking for. The story is told by cheerleader Alona Dare who was killed by the school bus, and Will Kinnian who can see, hear and even touch ghosts but spends most of his time ignoring them in the hope that they will leave him alone.
Alona is used to getting her own way and isn’t going to let a little thing like being dead stand in her way.
Desires of the Dead is the sequel to The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting. Violet is drawn towards the bodies of murder victims. Each victim and their murder share the same signature – a sound, smell, aura – and Violet is drawn to them.
Violet has always thought she should keep her gift a secret but when she helps the police find the body of a kidnapped boy, she fears that she will be unable to hide what she can do for much longer.
This year’s Book Week – Monday 31 October – Friday 4 November – is almost here.
If you entered the ‘Dress Blurbie as a Monster’ competition check out all the entries which will be on display in the library.
Click on Frank to see my efforts.
Make sure you join in the fun.
(Full details are on the sponsor form.)
What would you expect to see or buy in a MONSTER SHOP? Collect a form from the library, make a suggestion, and you could win a prize.
You’ve still got time to turn Blurbie into a monster. Blank Blurbie sheets are available in the library. (Entries by Friday 7th October.)
This year’s Book Week (October 31 – November 4) has a MONSTER theme. Check this blog in the coming weeks for lots more information on what will be happening that week in the Library and throughout the school.
To start us off, Mrs Turner is holding a competition to dress our Library Magazine mascot, Blurbie, as a monster. You can pick up a competition form from the library or print the copy attached. Blurbie monster
We look forward to seeing your drawings. (There will be prizes for the winning entries.)
Click here to read S1 summer book reviews
More than thirty S1 pupils completed Annan Academy’s Summer Challenge to read six books in six weeks.
Click on the sun to read reviews of just some of the books that were read and enjoyed during the summer holidays.
All of the books featured are available in the school’s library.
You can also read a copy of the booklet in your English class or in the school library.
If you haven’t yet read the latest School Library Magazine, then you can read it online here or, even better, read a copy in the school library.
We renamed our magazine, The Blurb, last year and now it’s time to start work on the next edition – number 4.
If you completed the SIX BOOKS IN SIX WEEKS challenge, remember to hand your completed form in to the school library as soon as you can.
I still haven’t managed to read all of the unread books on my shelves – mostly because I kept buying new ones that caught my eye. However, I did read the new Harry Dresden novel by Jim Butcher and, on my new Kindle, I read the first book in the Game of Thrones series.
Of the teenage books I read, my favourite was probably Wither, the first book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy by Lauren Destefano. There’s nothing like a bit of dystopian literature when the sky is cloudy! At the moment I’m reading a book called Bumped which deals with many of the same themes but in a future world that is not so very different from our own.
I also enjoyed catching up with the Time Riders series (see New Books for Boys) and Department 19 by Will Hill looks like a promising new vampire series.
If you’ve read a good book this summer, please share it with us here.
My son just bought me The Little Book of Puns for my birthday. I think he’s already regretting it!
Here’s a Doctor, Doctor joke I hadn’t heard:
Doctor, Doctor will this ointment clear up my spots?
I never make rash promises.
