Lights, Camera, Action - 📚 into 📽

In celebration of the BAFTAs and the Oscars 2019, we have a display of books that have been made into film for you to browse and borrow.

Lights, Camera, Action - Books into Film in the WML

This year some of the biggest movie releases will be adaptations of books, including The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon and All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.  These great YA reads, and many others, are available to borrow from the War Memorial Library.

Andrea Levy

Among the recent adaptations on the small screen is Andrea Levy's Small Island, an intertwining story of two couples, one white and one Jamaican during and after the second world war.  Also, The Long Song, a compelling story about slaves and slave owners in 19th Century Jamaica.  Andrea Levy was an amazing, prize-winning author, who sadly died from cancer on 14th February 2019 at the age of 62.  Both of Small Island and The Long Song are available to borrow from the War Memorial Library. 

Fall in Love with a Good Book this half term holiday!

The half term is a perfect opportunity to do some reading for pleasure!  We have some fantastic books for you to borrow and browse.

If you need some encouragement to rekindle your love of reading, here are a couple of tips:

Choose carefully – think about what you are interested in reading, there is no right or wrong!  It could be fiction or non-fiction, funny books, horror stories, romance or 'real-life' fiction.  Ask a friend to recommend a book they’ve enjoyed or ask your Librarian for ideas.

Make time to read every day - it may sound obvious but even if you don’t like reading, with the right book reading will become a habit and something to enjoy.  The Libraries have lots of great books from The Knife of Never Letting Go trilogy by Patrick Ness to A Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens as well as graphic novels, including James Patterson's fabulous Manga version of his Maximum Ride series.

LGBT History Month 2019

February is LBGT history month.  This year's theme is Peace and Reconciliation.  Over the coming weeks, Miss Barker will be hosting screenings of films celebrating LGBT history and diverse sexuality and gender identities for students at lunchtime.

Posters featuring prominent LGBT personalities across a variety of fields, including music, English, IT, will be displayed around the school.

In the War Memorial Library, we have lots of great YA fiction and classic novels by celebrated LGBT authors, including Juno Dawson, Patrick Ness, Cat Clarke and Oscar Wilde for you to borrow and browse.  Check out our display in the Discovery Library too, which includes a copy of From Prejudice to Pride: A History of the LGBTQ+ Movement by Amy Lamé, one of the winners of the SLA Information Book Awards 2018.