Library: Books &amp; Reading: Cathy Oxley

CATHY OXLEY

Teacher Librarian

Favourite authors
JRR Tolkein
Tim Winton
Trent Dalton
Jane Harper
Patrick Ness
Robert Ludlum
John Marsden

Favourite quotes
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
— George R.R.Martin

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." — Ray Bradbury

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot live without books.” — Thomas Jefferson

"If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all." — John Green, Paper Towns

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." — C.S. Lewis

Favourite books
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Shepherd’s Hut – Tim Winton
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Gate to Women’s Country – Sheri Tepper
Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton
The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
In the Dark Spaces - Cally Black

CURRENTLY READING/ JUST READ

Tha Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
ISBN: 9781529100891
Return to the Scholomance - a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out- you graduate or you die. El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year - and the looming spectre of graduation. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules.
TIGERS by M.A.Bennett
ISBN: 9781471408687
Volume 4 in the STAGS series.
Shafeen's father, Prince Aadhish, has had a heart attack and is close to death. Desperately worried, Shafeen and Greer race from STAGS to Rajasthan. But Prince Aadhish is in a coma and unresponsive and they begin to realise that the Prince received a terrible shock, triggered by a decades-old guilty secret. But as Shafeen and Greer attempt to unlock the secret, they come to believe the answer lies with the de Warlencourt ancestor, Colonel Montgomery, founder of the T.I.G.E.R. shooting club, which horrifyingly pursued low caste Indians instead of tigers. It appears that 'Monty' brought the Order of the Stag to India, and the hunts may still be going on.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
ISBN: 9781529087949
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they're likely to bring about the end of days. But the children aren't the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.
In the Dark Spaces by Cally Black
ISBN: 9781760128647
In this multi-award-winning book,14-year-old Tamara is faced with an impossible choice when she falls;for her kidnappers. Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living;on a star freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople - the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now - and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive. But survival always comes at a price, and there's no handbook for this hostage crisis. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, she realises she has an impossible choice to make: Should she stay as the only human among the Crows, knowing she'll never see her family again ... or inevitably betray her new community if she wants to escape?