Library News

The Pacific Library is very well set up to support students’ research and reading needs from home. Junior College Prep – Year 5 students should bookmark our junior library homepage: https://library.pacluth.qld.edu.au/oliver/junior.do . Here students...

Junior Readers ‘Baz and Benz’ by Heidi McKinnon. Baz and Benz are best friends. But sometimes being friends isn’t easy. Sometimes friends change. Sometimes they do annoying things. Really annoying things! But through it all, friends stick together...

Author Ursula Dubosarsky has been chosen as the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020–21. Ursula Dubosarsky is the author of over 60 books for children and young adults. She has won many national prizes and her books have been published across the...

This week, all our reviews are of titles from our eBook collection. Students can access the collection of eBooks via the Library Homepage and follow the link to ePlatform to login. Junior Readers ‘Jake Atlas and the Quest for the Crystal Mountain’...

Book Club order forms were handed out to Prep – Year 7 students this week. Orders need to be placed online or handed in to the library by next Wednesday 18 th March. Ms Nell Keen, Head of Library

Junior Readers ‘Say Something’ by Peter H. Reynolds. Peter H. Reynolds certainly knows how to pen a picture book with a very special message. The author of ‘The Dot’ and ‘Ish’ returns with his latest offering, ‘Say Something’. The world needs your...

Year 6 and 8 students are invited to nominate for the Readers’ Cup. Readers’ Cup is a national competition where teams of four students compete to answer questions on books, from a given list of five books. The Sunshine Coast competition is on...

Junior Readers ‘You Can Change the World’ by Lucy Bell. Packed full of wonderful ideas for recycling, upcycling and living sustainably, ‘You Can Change the World’ is the perfect guide for environmentally-minded young readers. This is a bright and...

Last week, 62 students across Years 4-12 attended the Voices on the Coast Literature Festival at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Students enjoyed listening to their favourite authors and meeting some new authors, whose books they’re now keen...

New books, new books! Who doesn’t love a brand new book? Those shiny covers and crisp, fresh pages. The Pacific library has lots of new books to enjoy and discover. Each fortnight in their library lessons, Prep to Year 8 students are presented with...