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Māpuna Library Book Trailers Display

Our latest library display highlights book trailers, thanks to EpicsReads YouTube channel who create great book trailers, we’ve put a few together a few of our titles to match these great trailers. Here are a few of the titles we have on display: Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (Graphic Novel Memoir) A Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl who is abruptly transplanted from Seoul to Huntsville, Alabama, … Continue reading Māpuna Library Book Trailers Display

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Book Review: The Gallagher Girls (Series)

Author: Ally Carter    Published: 2006 Series: The Gallagher Girls Genres: YA, Romance, Spy school By: Nicole Can you speak at least 14 languages fluently? Kill a man in seven different ways, three involving a piece of uncooked spaghetti?   Girls at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women can do both, and Cammie Morgan is one of them. The academy may seem like an elite boarding school for privileged girls, but that’s … Continue reading Book Review: The Gallagher Girls (Series)

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Book Review: M Is For Magic

Author: Neil Gaiman    Published: 2008 Genres: YA, Fantasy and Horror Rating: 3/5 stars By: Sophie This book is a great book for readers who are not as confident or struggle to finish a book. With Eleven short stories that will take you on a new journey in each. While reading this book you undergo a range of stories- from amusing to possibly even heart pounding experiences it’s easy to get hooked. … Continue reading Book Review: M Is For Magic

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Māpuna Library Pride Display

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. Our newest display is to celebrate Pride month and our LGBTQIA+ community. Some of our new titles include: Heartstopper (Volume 1) by Alice Oseman Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…? Gender … Continue reading Māpuna Library Pride Display

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Māpuna Library’s Matariki Display

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. With the help of our fantastic Student Librarian team we’ve created a display to celebrate Matariki month (pictured below). With hand-drawn stars to represent the 9 stars of the Matariki cluster with a night sky backdrop. Alongside the Māori Council’s (Mana Kōtiro) Wish Box. Also with all the new books arriving since our lockdown … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Matariki Display

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Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

Author: Julia Walton    Published: 2017 Genres: YA and Contemporary By: Ella Julia Walton captures a unique angle on Schizophrenia starring Adam, a teen boy who has Schizophrenia. Through diary entries to his therapist and a new drug trial this book shows Adam struggling and accepting his illness.  When he starts his new school, he meets Maya, and he will do anything to stop his illness being known. This captivating read is a brilliant example of finding the comedy in tragedy, self-acceptance, first love, and the strange … Continue reading Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

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Book Review: Across the Universe (Series)

Author: Beth Revis    Published: 2011 Series: #1 Across The Universe, #2 A Million Suns and #3 Shades of Earth Genres: YA, Sci-Fi, Dystopian and Romance By: Nicole How would you react if you woke up on a generational ship fifty years earlier than planned? Seventeen-year-old Amy wakes up on the ship, Godspeed, fifty years before landing on the destined planet. Amy must find out who pulled her plug before her … Continue reading Book Review: Across the Universe (Series)

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Book Review: The Potion Diaries (Series)

Authors: Amy Alward     Published: 2015 Series: #1 The Potion Diaries, #2 Royal Tour and #3 Going Viral Genre: YA, Fantasy and Romance By: Nicole The princess of Nova accidentally falls in love with her reflection after poisoning herself with a love potion meant for her crush. A nationwide hunt is held, and potion makers are travelling around the world to find the ingredients. The ingredients needed are very rare and can only be found … Continue reading Book Review: The Potion Diaries (Series)

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Book Review: Fire

Authors: Kristin Cashore     Published: 2009 Series: Graceling Realm #2 Genre: YA, Fantasy and Romance By: Ashlin Fire is beautiful – far too beautiful for her own good. She is part monster and this allows her to reach into minds, warp them, control them and use them in any way she wishes. But she doesn’t wish to. That was what her father did, not her. Fire only ever enters others’ … Continue reading Book Review: Fire

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