Authors: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis Published: 2018 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Nicole Stella Grant is a high school student suffering from cystic fibrosis, who also runs a YouTube channel where she educates people on CF. Having spent her whole life going to hospitals and missing out on school events, Stella wants nothing to get in the way of a … Continue reading Book Review: Five Feet Apart
Author: John Green Published: 2006 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Ashlin Miles – a scrawny, nerdy, law-abiding boy who loves last words – is searching for his Great Perhaps. Alaska – a crazy, emotional and unpredictable girl stuck with many vices – is looking for a way out of her labyrinth. Can the two of them unintentionally give the other the answers they are so … Continue reading Book Review: Looking for Alaska
Author: Angie Thomas Published: 2017 Genre: YA, Contemporary By: Nicole Starr Carter’s life balances between two completely opposite worlds, the poor neighbourhood and the private school she goes to. It’s hard to move between the two, but when she witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, get shot in front of her, it gets harder. Starr knows that Khalil was unarmed. Starr knows that the policeman shot him. … Continue reading Book Review: The Hate U Give
Author: Stephen King Published: 2019 Genre: Thriller/Suspense, Horror, Mystery By: Katie The Institute revolves around a boy called Luke Ellis who is a child prodigy and has mild telekinetic abilities. One night while his family was sleeping, intruders break into his home and silently murder his parents before kidnapping Luke and forcing him into a black SUV. He eventually wakes up in a room that is just like his own except that there is … Continue reading Book Review: The Institute
Author: Sarah J. Maas Published: 2015 Genre: YA, Fantasy By: Ashlin In this book, Sarah J. Maas creates a world where faeries and humans live alongside each other, but a war from centuries ago means that their relationship is far from friendly. Feyre, a human girl who trudges through each day only thinking of how she can save her family, has broken the law. She … Continue reading Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses
School’s Out! This year Māpuna Library has run a Summer Reading programme where our students filled out a questionnaire and our Library Staff picked them ten mystery titles! It has been popular and the summer reading books and bags flew off the shelves! Thanks to all the student librarians who helped recommend books and to all the students taking part, we hope you enjoy our … Continue reading Māpuna Summer Reading has begun!
Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays this year. With the help of our fantastic Student Librarian team we flexed our creative muscles with four fantastic displays. Firstly, Top Titles a vertical hanging display presenting the student librarian’s own reviews of their current reads (pictured below). An eye-catchingly colourful display with the Are you feeling blue? and Are you seeing RED? (pictured below). As well … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s awesome displays!
This year Māpuna Library participated in the HELL Pizza Reading Challenge 2019 which works in collaboration with the NZ Book Awards. This a competition where students had to read 7 books and get each one signed off by a library staff member/teacher. Once 7 books had been read, they qualified for a free pizza from HELL Pizza! The library staff made it more challenging by asking a series of questions about each … Continue reading Māpuna student librarians’ award-winning display!
Author: Jenny Downham Published: 2007 Genre: YA, Contemporary fiction My Rating: 4/5 By: Yeshitu I thoroughly enjoyed this story it was an excellent read. This book makes you think about having a short life and what would happen to you, if your life is shortened. The ideas the author suggests in her book are that if you don’t have much longer to live, you would … Continue reading Book Review: Before I Die
Author: Catherine Chidgey Published: 2016 Genre: Historical fiction My Rating: 4.5/5 By: Aurora This book follows the story of two children growing up in Nazi Germany during the war. Sieglinde and Erich grow up unaware of each other, until the war forces them together to survive. The Wish Child stayed with me long after I finished reading it. It is a brilliant novel, creating a … Continue reading Book Review: The Wish Child
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