Book Reviews

Book Review: The Seven Sisters Series

Author: Lucinda Riley    Published: 2014 – Genres: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Romance By: Nicole When the six sisters hear of their adoptive father, Pa Salt’s sudden death, they all return totheir childhood home. There, they are each given coordinates and a letter from him that help them figure out their birthplace and birth family. Each book in the series follows a sister who goes on a unique journey to find … Continue reading Book Review: The Seven Sisters Series

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Library Displays

Māpuna Library’s Display: “Intrigued by the first line…”

The latest display in our library was recommended by and put up with the help of our fantastic student librarians. The idea was to see if we could get readers to pick up a book without seeing the cover! Could they be hooked by the first line instead? Books with intriguing first lines were picked, the first lines typed up and wrapped to hide the … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: “Intrigued by the first line…”

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Book Review: Ruby Redfort Series

Author: Lauren Child    Published: 2011-2016 Genre(s): YA, Mystery, Adventure, Crime, Spy    Star Rating: 5/5 stars By: Tessa Ruby’s first rule: You can never be completely sure what will happen next Child genius Ruby Redfort is only 13 years old when she is recruited as a code breaker for Spectrum 8. She is told by her boss that she has to keep her curiosity under control, or she’ll be kicked out of … Continue reading Book Review: Ruby Redfort Series

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Book Review: The Lovely Bones

Author: Alice Sebold    Published: 2006 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama By: Ashlin In this book, we follow the lives of Susie Salmon and her family as they try to determine who her murderer is. From the afterlife, Susie watches as her family struggles to accept her loss and fights to uncover the truth of her death. This book was recommended to me many times by family members and friends, … Continue reading Book Review: The Lovely Bones

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Māpuna Library’s Display: I can’t remember the title but it had a yellow cover…

The latest display in our library is inspired by quite a common question many librarians will be familiar with… Do you have this book? I can’t remember the title but…it had a *insert colour here* cover! This time we went with YELLOW! With the help of our wonderful student librarians we created this display. Happy Friday everyone! The Māpuna Library Team 😀 Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: I can’t remember the title but it had a yellow cover…

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Book Review: The Darkest Minds

Author: Alexandra Bracken    Published: 2012 Series: The Darkest Minds Genres: YA, Dystopian, Sci-Fi By: Tia The Darkest Minds is the first book in a science fiction series written by Alexandra Bracken, set in a dystopian era. In America, IAAN (also known as Everhart’s disease) spread around and killed 98% of young children, leaving the last 2% with special powers. There is no cure, and no symptoms except death. On her … Continue reading Book Review: The Darkest Minds

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Māpuna Library’s Most Popular Reads

Our latest library display highlights our Most Popular Reads for our juniors, Years 9 and 10. We have a top 3 for each year group. Year 9 Here are our top 3 titles on display: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Most Popular Reads

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Māpuna Library’s Halloween Display

Feast your eyes on our spooky, creepy Halloween display featuring a great selection of our horror and thriller reads. We enlisted the help of our skeleton (on loan from the Science department, thanks), creatively placed spiders webs, hanging ghouls, spiders, bats, a crow and our skull, Yorick! The display was finished off with our cauldron framed by ghostly hands filled with our mystery horror reads! … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Halloween Display

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Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display!

There were many activities organised to celerate Te wiki o te reo Māori this last week. On Monday there was traditional weaving at lunch, Tuesday there was chalk drawing in the Cultural Space, Wednesday there was Kī-o-rahi (a traditional ball sport) being played on the fields, Thursday boasted brilliant a Kapa haka performance and on Friday was kai day with Frybread and a traditional Hāngi … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display!

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Māpuna Library’s Tongan Language Week Display!

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. This week we’ve been celebrating Tongan Language Week and this is what we came up with! With a combination of our non-fiction titles about Tonga, its culture and language and other Pasifika cultures, and fiction titles written by Tongan authors. As well as displaying some greetings and key library-related phrases in Tongan language. Loto-poto’ … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Tongan Language Week Display!

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