Book of the Week- The Return!

The first book of the week for the new school year is Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane. Not to be confused with the comedic film, this is actually a very good book in a similar style to a lot of 'books for boys' at the moment- action packed plotlines like Alex Rider and Young James Bond.

You know you're fighting a losing battle, when one pupil asks you why Sherlock Holmes was book of the week every week, when you only put the poster up yesterday!

Wave your Flag!

This week's book of the week is the first in the Stadium School series - appropriate for the World Cup. I would have Chosen something tennis related- but there doesn't appear to be any tennis fiction for kids!

Book of the week will be taking a holiday as we approach the end of term- with 2 'closed' weeks in the library and then only a half week left there seems little point in doing any more until September.

Here be faeries...

This week's book of the week is The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1- The Field Guide.

This is the start of a really excellent modern fantasy series with some incredible illustrations.

Homework

This week's book is 'Across the Nightingale Floor' by Lian Hearn, a psuedo-historical/fantasy novel and first in a trilogy, but it can be read alone.

As you can probably tell by the cover it's set in Japan and is very 'forbidden love and samurai' in theme!

Start Again! (and some Neil)

So I'm attempting a restart on this blog and kicking things off with something new I'm doing in conjunction with my new job.

(circus font taken from dafont.com)

As I'm working in a school library and we're currently trying to get more kids reading different things, I'm re-starting book of the week and posting the books on here.

The first book of the week is Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book' which is excellent and has only been taken out once since purchase, which is a major crime.

This isn't his first 'kids' book (though how kiddy friendly it is depends on the reader) but I do think it's his best. Read it and I don't think you'll be disappointed. He also has a very interesting blog: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/