Book Week Scotland 21st – 27th November

Last week we celebrated Book Week Scotland. There was a Scholastic book fair in the library and a scrambled letters book quiz. We also asked pupils and staff to post answers to book-related questions on our wall.

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Here are some of our answers:

What’s the best book you have ever read?
The Fault in Our StarsWar HorseHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2Tokyo Ghoul, tome 1 (Tokyo Ghoul, #1)Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)The Lie TreeHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)The Diary of a Young Girl

Who is your favourite baddie from a book?
Light Yagami from Deathnote by Tsugumi Ohba
Lord Loss from the Demonata series by Darren Shan
Voldemort from the Harry Potter series by JK Rowking
Miss Trunchbull from Matilda by Roald Dahl
President Snow from The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Lord Vile from the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
Delphine from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Which book character would you like to hang out with for a day?
Gale from The Hunger Games
Katniss from The Hunger Games
Tips, Lily and Adie from The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Hermione from Harry Potter
Light Yagami from Deathnote
Penny from Girl Online
The Sorting Hat from Harry Potter
Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter
Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter

What book are you reading right now?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)The Midnight Chimes (Robyn Silver 1)A Tale of Two Cities
Generation NextThe Wind in the WillowsThe Brilliant World of Tom Gates (Tom Gates, #1)Death Note, Vol. 9: Contact (Death Note, #9)

 

Top Books and Borrowers October 2016

The most borrowed books in the library in October were:
1. The Piper – Danny Weston **S1 author visit**
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – Jeff Kinney
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel – Jeff Kinney
4. Missing – Cathy MacPhail
5. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
6. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend
7. Cat – Clare Hibbert *non fiction*
8. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
9. Mr Stink – David Walliams
10. Ratburger – David Walliams

Pupils and staff at Kilmarnock Academy can see a list of who borrowed the most books on the library’s glow pages.