Bookmarks

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 fun book, with lots of practical ideas and little projects that can help you make a difference in the world. This book also contains stories of other young people who have made a big difference.

Activity Idea: Try out one of the activities inside this book, like making your own compost bin or growing seeds in an old egg carton.

Middle Readers

‘The Australia Survival Guide: Australia is trying to kill you – this book will save your life’ by George Ivanoff.

If you are venturing outdoors this week to help with Clean Up Australia Day, you might want to take this book along with you. The beaches might look beautiful and the parks might present an air of general safety, but AUSTRALIA IS TRYING TO KILL YOU, you know! This hilarious guide to all things dangerous is as interesting as it is hilarious.

If you like this, try George Ivanoff’s ‘Royal Flying Doctors Service’ series.

SeniorReaders

‘Dry’ by Neal Shusterman.

What would you do if you were running out of water? Everyone knows the water is running out. Alyssa lives by the rules of her society – don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool and never take long showers. But when the water runs out, families turn against each other, neighbours become enemies and the fight for water – and survival – begins. Alyssa and her brother, along with their neighbour and a few other teens head off to find the water they need. This is an apocalyptic road trip novel that will have older readers hooked.

Ms Madison Dearnaley, Teacher Librarian