Bookmarks

Junior Readers

'Geronimo Stilton' by Geronimo Stilton

‘Geronimo Stilton’ is a fantastic series about a mouse who is a journalist. He would prefer to live a quiet life, but he keeps getting involved in adventures that take him around the world with his sister Thea, cousin Trap and nephew Ben. Our eBook collection has more than 25 of these wonderful titles. 

Activity idea – Check out the online world of Geronimo Stilton. There are games and lots of fun activities to try (you will need to select English as your chosen language): https://geronimostilton.com/WW-en/guarda/.

Fun fact – The ‘Geronimo Stilton’ books are written in Italian and translated to English

Middle Readers

'Journey to the River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson 

Escape to the Amazon jungle with Maia. Maia is sent to live with her awful aunt, uncle and twin cousin girls when her parents die. She is surprised that this family live in such as amazing place, on a house along the Amazon River, but she doesn’t want to explore it or connect with the people who live there. Maia is soon caught up in the mystery of a missing boy and helps uncover an amazing scientific discovery.

Activity idea – Check out the Amazon Aerobotany project on Zooniverse: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rainforestexpeditions/amazon-aerobotany. You can help scientists’ study both the Amazon rainforest trees and the living populations in them. Help the scientist by categorising and tagging the drone-captured images of the Amazon canopy.

Senior Readers

'Day Zero' by Kelly deVos

‘Day Zero’ has all the destruction, terror and political unrest you would expect from a book about the end of civilisation as we know it. Jinx doesn’t much care for politics, history or who won the recent election. She’d rather focus on her upcoming campaign in her favourite computer game. But then she, her younger brother and her step-sister are caught up in one of five building explosions that sends the population into a terror-driven run on the banks. When her step-father is arrested for the explosions and her mother is taken as part of the investigation, Jinx knows their only chance of survival is finding her father, a doomsday survivalist expert, a computer genius and best friend of the man who is currently trying to hunt her down.

Activity idea – Learn more about the author on her website at: https://www.kellydevos.us/ and check out the YA Scavenger Hunt she is currently running.

Ms Madison Dearnaley, Teacher Librarian