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!

Another Carnegie Book Award shortlist title...

'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled his whole life but now he's going to a real school - and he's dreading it.

WONDER is a really moving story that will make you laugh and cry.

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Can You Go Screen Free?

 

Book trailer - 'Itch Rocks' by Simon Mayo

Carnegie Shortlist ....one of the contenders for the Carnegie Medal

Charlie Higson: How do you build suspense and plant clues?

Follow the link below to see Charlie Higson explaining how you can make your own stories full of excitement and suspense.

http://www.worldbookday.com/storycrafts/charlie-higson/

Happy World Book Day!
Go to www.worldbookday.com for lots of info and fun activities.
If you haven't had your World Book Day token by the end of the day, come to the LRC to pick one up!