Our second BookTalk was held in the NBHS 'Memorial Library'. Heaps of space. No need to worry about the noise level so we could be as excited as we liked :-) And the nibbles and drinks were devine!
The theme for this BookTalk was to share a book we enjoyed that a student had recommended to us ... Oh yeah! And our favourite reads of course.
Favourite Reads
Picture Books:
The End by Jim Benton
Help! We need a title! by Herve Tullet
Back-to-front Bob by Belinda Ellis
- Good for use with Language, Vocabulary and Word Games
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
This Old Ram by Errol McLeary
Children's Fiction:
Tale of a Tail by Margaret Mahy
Secret Seven series by Enid Blyton
Dorkius Maximus series by Tim Collins
Dragon Frontier by Dan Abnett
- Year 5+
- Dragons & The Wild West
Dragon Run by Patrick Matthews
- Year 5+
A long way gone by Ishmael Beah
- Year 7+
- Good as a READ-ALOUD at Upper Primary School level
- Child soldiers in Siera Leone
- True story
YA Fiction:
I hunt killers by Barry Lyga
Bugs by Whiti Hereaka
- Similar to 'Once were warriors' but gentler
- Very real
- Teenage relationships
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Dragons
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff
Fault in our stars by John Green
The Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken
When we wake series by Karen Healey
- Political
- Religious
- Cryogenic
The Wall by William Sutcliffe
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
- Light-horsemen in Aussie going to war
- Based on fact
- Fighting in the dessert
- Good book for boys
Life unexpected by Mal Peet
The Boy on the wooden box by Leon Leyson
- Based on a true story
- NOTE: Acceptable in upper primary school
- This was an incredible and moving read
Smart by Kim Slater
- Similar to 'Curious Incident of the dog in the nightime'
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
Blood & Fire Bk1 Halo / Bk2 Radicals by Frankie Rose
Adult Fiction:
Midnight Crossroads by Charlaine Harris
- New series by the author of Sookie Stackhouse / True Blood
I am Malala by Christina Lamb
- Non-Fiction
- The story of Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot by the Taliban and is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate
Display / Competition ideas
Take your book on holiday:
- Photos of your book's holiday while you are on holiday
Red a book lately?:
- Book display of only books with red covers
- Change it for different colour themes
-- 'I'm feeling blue today'
-- 'Spring into a new book' (yellow)
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