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Carnegie Greenaway award winners 2013










Congratulations to Levi Pinfold and Sally Gardner, winners of the Carnegie Greenaway awards 2013.

Blood Tracks

Newly released this month is Blood Tracks by Paula Rawsthorne. Gina is a runner. With her feet pounding the ground and her dad watching, she feels as though she can fly. But when her dad dies in dramatic circumstances, Gina refuses to accept the explanations she is given. Struggling to find the truth, Gina finds herself plunged into a world far removed from the one she has known; a world of lies, crime and betrayal. A world that will make her question everyone and everything around her. A world she can't run from.

The World of Norm

 Norm’s life seems to have gone badly wrong and we learn all about it in this series of books.  How Norm gets through the ups and many downs of his life is a rollercoaster of laughs.
If you like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, you'll love The World of Norm  series!

New Children's Laureate Announced

Malorie Blackman, the author of the Noughts and Crosses series and many other teen novels is the new children's laureate, taking over from Julia Donaldson.In her acceptance speech  Malorie outlined some of the things she has lined up for her two years as laureate. Her main aim is to "get more children reading more" and she's keen to promote diverse genres and forms as she's a big fan of comics and graphic novels so she'll be highlighting those, as well as short stories. She's also a huge supporter of libraries and wants to make sure that every kid in the country has a library ticket.

Why not drop into the library and borrow Noughts and Crosses, one of her most brilliant books!

Welsh Book Award for Daniel Morden

The Welsh Books Council has announced that Daniel Morden,
who visited Newport High School to tell stories earlier this year, 
has won the 2013 Tir na n-Og English Award for his collection of stories
Tree of Leaf and Flame (Pont Books).

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' by Jeff Kinney has been voted the Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years by Blue Peter fans.

Greg Heffley is a normal American kid, albeit one with a habit of getting into (and out of) trouble. His diary, complete with hilarious cartoons, records a year in his life and follows his relationships with his nerdy best friend Rowley, annoying brothers Roderick and Manny and long-suffering parents.

Why not come along to the LRC and read one of the Wimpy Kid series?

Spring has sprung!

Spring has finally arrived! Why not try this quiz to see what you know about springtime in some of your favourite stories?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/quiz/2013/apr/25/spring-has-finally-sprung-quiz

In book club we are reading....

Boys Don't Cry by Malorie Blackman

You're about to receive your A-level results and are planning to go to university and then become a journalist, but the day they arrive your old girlfriend Kendra turns up unexpectedly with a baby. At first, you assume Kendra's looking after the baby for a friend but she tells you it is her baby.  She asks you to mind the baby while she pops out.  However, there is one problem - she doesn't come back....
Look out for our reviews of this book in the LRC soon!