Last week we were thrilled to welcome Graeme Armstrong to Knightswood Secondary for the last author session of the Library Young Team SLIF project, which has been so important in engaging young people. This project was supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund.

Graeme has been on the circuit for a while now, and even mentioned that Knightswood was his 100th session over the last year or so. His book, The Young Team, has been optioned for film and Graeme also wrote and presented a three-part documentary series, Street Gangs, which aired on the BBC last October.

His time with our pupils was powerful and deeply impactful, and several copies of his book have now been checked out from the School Library. Speaking from personal experience, Graeme took pupils through a chronology of his spiral into gang culture and drug addiction, and how he found the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel. It was a brilliant session, with several pupils commenting after that it had changed their perspective on certain aspects of their lives.