Just a small selection of our new books below. A new book list is ready and raring to go so expect some more new books very soon. Some brilliant requests and suggestions from our new S1s have been added to the list.
A big welcome to our new S1 cohort and a big welcome back to everyone else!
In August all the S1s participated in their library inductions and received their school library cards. It was great to see how keen they are to use the library and to hear about their favourite genres (more of which below)…
Over the summer the fiction has been rearranged by genre to make it easier to find your favourite books. Judging by the book issues so far, I’ll be looking to buy in more Romance, Spooky & Scary and Thriller & Mystery.
We had a wonderful delivery of new books from Waterstones.
I also visited the School Library Outreach department in the Mitchell Library and sourced some amazing non-fiction titles to add to our collection. Watch this space.
Our application for the Scottish Book Trust’s Danielle Jawando tour has been sent. Fingers crossed!
We celebrated World Book Day in Rosshall Library with free WBD books and tokens, competitions, a book giveaway and a display of award winning and nominated books of the last year.
Well done to our two competitions winners Ella and Seeret!
To celebrate LGBT History Month, the librarian visited the LGBTQI+ pupil group for a chat, our LGBTQI+ participatory budgeting session books arrived and members of the pupil group did a great job creating our LGBT History Month display.
This month in Rosshall:
Participatory budgeting session to further diversify our stock. Great choices everyone!
A new display for the New Year – Try Something New!
New senior books courtesy of the SLIF White Water Writers project. List below:
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other |
| Haruki Murakimi | Nowegian Wood |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun |
This Project is supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund.
We celebrated Black History Month with our popular display.
Some more information below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-54522248
New School Year, New S1s, New Library Layout, New Librarian, New Books!
A huge welcome to our new S1s. All S1 classes have now had their library inductions and are good to go with their class visits. We’ve been super busy at interval and lunchtimes as well. Check out the new books that have arrived this month.
World Book Day (Thursday March 3rd), is celebrating 25 years! To mark this occasion, I have picked one book from each of the past 25 years to create a display.
1997 – Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
1998 – Skellig (David Almond)
1999 – A Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) (Lemony Snicket)
2000 – Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, No. 1) (Anthony Horowitz)
2001 – Noughts And Crosses (Malorie Blackman)
2002 – Eragon (Christopher Paolini)
2003 – How To Train your Dragon (Cresssida Cowell)
2004 – Diamond Girls (Jacqueline Wilson)
2005 – Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
2006 – Pretty Little Liars (Sara Shepard)
2007 – Diary of A Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
2008 – The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
2009 – Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous-Life (Dork Diaries, No. 1) (Rachel Renee Russell)
2010 – Billionaire Boy (David Walliams)
2011 – The Worst Years of My Life (Middle School, No. 1) (James Patterson)
2012 – Kick-Off! (Jamie Johnson, No. 1) (Dan Freedman)
2013 – Coco Caramel (Cathy Cassidy)
2014 – Beware The Kitten Holy (Lumberjanes, No. 1) (Shannon Watters)
2015 – The Nowhere Emporium (Ross Mackenzie)
2016 – Dog Man (Dav Pilkey)
2017 – The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
2018 – Heartstopper (Alice Oseman)
2019 – Look Both Ways (Jason Reynolds)
2020 – The Cousins (Karen M. McManus)
2021 – Stick Boy (Paul Coomey)
Which book will be popular in 2022?
What is it?
LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. (Wikipedia).
As part of Rosshall’s Improvement Plan under “Inclusion And Equalities”, Rosshall is working towards LGBT Silver Charter. To further promote LGBT Equality I have created a display in the library.
One part focusses on those who fought for LGBT Rights and those who have influenced the world through their music, art and literature.
The other part features some current LGBT authors and fiction books held in the library.
Some further reading:
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/great-lgbtq-books-for-teens
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/new-and-upcoming-middle-grade-lgbtq-books
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists/books-about-lgbtq-history
