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
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
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!
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!
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
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)
Our latest display in Māpuna Library is Spine Poetry! Our student librarians have been creating some fantastic poems. First the Library Team’s submission below: Continue reading Spine Poetry Display
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
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
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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