Good news for Harry Potter fans

Young  Harry Potter fans who are disappointed that J K Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, due out today, is aimed at adults with not a spell in sight, will be glad to know that she will be returning to children's fiction with her next book.

She said that "I think it very likely the next thing I publish will be for children." She added, "I have a children's book that I really like. It's for slightly younger children than the Potter books."
So, good news for readers everywhere!

 

Now available in the LRC

Hugely entertaining, this story is also thought
 provoking about the perils of having way too much money.
Joe Spud is the richest twelve-year-old in the world; he has
everything his heart desires – except happiness. As one disaster follows another, Joe and his father both learn the hard way what really matters.

WHOOPSEY-SPLUNKERS!
The BFG is 30 – join the party this Roald Dahl Day!

The official Roald Dahl Day takes place every year on 13 September, on the birthday of the World's No. 1 Storyteller. In 2012 we can celebrate 30 years of the swizzfiggling Big Friendly Giant.
To find out more about Roald Dahl Day go to www.roalddahlday.info/

Welcome!

Welcome to our new Year 7 students and welcome back to everyone else!

As we start a new school year and get to know some new faces, why not try the quiz on the website below and test your knowledge of teachers made famous in some great books.
www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site

Keep reading!

Happy summer reading to you all! 
Whatever the weather, enjoy some rest and relaxation with a good book!

Between The Lines - new teen read from Jodi Picoult and daughter

Enter the world of Olympic hopeful Tom Daley

Now available in the LRC!

The Olympics by Richard Brassey

The quirkiest guide you will ever read on the history of the world's most famous celebration of sport. From the story of how ideas from the games of ancient Greece have been carried down and into the twenty-first century, to the individual tales of heroes and heroines, this is a witty and entertaining guide.

Carnegie and Greenaway Winner Announced

A Monster Calls (Walker Books) written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has become the first book ever to win both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals.
Ness is also only the second author to win the award in consecutive years (the first being Peter Dickinson in 1979 and 1980), having won in 2011 for Monsters of Men.

 This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth....

Enter the Morris Gleitzman short story writing competition

Top author Morris Gleitzman will be judging a summer short story competition for 7-14-year-olds - get writing and enter now!  Details at www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site