Borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks free from the School Library Service using the Borrow Box app. Install Borrow Box on your smart devices to read and listen on the go!

Borrow Box is available to all public library members. Once you install the app, select Dundee School Library Service, enter your email address, library barcode and pin* to start borrowing.

* If you don’t know your pin, contact your local public library

Why not kick off by taking part in Dundee’s first Borrow Box Campaign. Throughout March, 500 copies of the eAudiobooks Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball by Laura Ellen Anderson and Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly will be available for download to enable groups of pupils, friends, families etc., to listen to the same book at the same time.

Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball by Laura Ellen Anderson  – Target audience Children (7+)

Welcome to the world of Nocturnia, where darkness reigns supreme, glitter is terrifying and unicorns are the stuff of nightmares!…Click on the image for a wee audio sample

 

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly – Target Audience Young Adult (13+)

Stepsister takes up where Cinderella’s tale ends.  We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella’s two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not.

Cinderella is about a girl who is bullied; Stepsister is about the bully. We all root for the victims, we want to see them triumph. But what about the bullies? Is there hope for them? Can a mean girl change? Can she find her own happy ever after?…Click on the image for a short audio extract