{"id":5472,"date":"2025-01-23T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:07:26","slug":"chs-rights-respecting-book-of-the-month-december-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2025\/01\/23\/chs-rights-respecting-book-of-the-month-december-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHS Rights Respecting Book-of-the-Month: January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org.uk\/rights-respecting-schools\/the-rrsa\/about-the-rrsa\/\">Rights Respecting Schools Award<\/a> recognises a school\u2019s achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice within the school and beyond. Every month the Castlemilk High School features one library book that highlights some articles from the UNCRC, helping to raise pupils&#8217; awareness of childrens&#8217; right. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Our january Book-of-the-Month is <i>Anita and me <\/i>by Meera Syal<\/span>, <span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0which links to a number of articles including: <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2: Non-discrimination<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">13: Freedom of expression<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">14: Freedom of thought, belief and religion<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5474\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2025\/01\/23122434\/anita-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2025\/01\/23122434\/anita-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2025\/01\/23122434\/anita.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Blonde, sassy and rebellious, Anita Rutter is everything nine-year-old Meena wants to be. Growing up in the only Punjabi family in the village, Meena is desperate to break free from her parents. More than anything, she wants Anita to accept her into her gang.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">But is a friendship with Anita Rutter really everything it seems?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"><em><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Anita and Me is a novel rich with humour and compassion \u2013 a poignant story of immigration, adolescence and belonging.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Anita and me<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0is available now in <a href=\"https:\/\/libcat.csglasgow.org\/web\/schools\/results?p_p_id=crDetailWicket_WAR_arenaportlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=1&amp;p_p_state=normal&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_search_item_id=0006548768&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_facet_queries=&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_agency_name=AUK000048&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_search_item_no=0&amp;_crDetailWicket_WAR_arenaportlet_back_url=https%3A%2F%2Flibcat.csglasgow.org%2Fweb%2Fschools%2Fsearch%3Fp_p_id%3DsearchResult_WAR_arenaportlet%26p_p_lifecycle%3D1%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_r_p_arena_urn%253Aarena_facet_queries%3D%26_searchResult_WAR_arenaportlet_agency_name%3DAUK000048%26p_r_p_arena_urn%253Aarena_search_item_no%3D0%26p_r_p_arena_urn%253Aarena_search_query%3Danita%2Band%2Bme%26p_r_p_arena_urn%253Aarena_search_type%3Dsolr%26p_r_p_arena_urn%253Aarena_sort_advice%3Dfield%253DRelevance%2526direction%253DDescending%26_searchResult_WAR_arenaportlet_arena_member_id%3D68009021&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_search_query=anita+and+me&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_search_type=solr&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_sort_advice=field%3DRelevance%26direction%3DDescending&amp;p_r_p_arena_urn%3Aarena_arena_member_id=68009021\">book<\/a> ,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasgow.overdrive.com\/media\/1079998\">ebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/glasgow.overdrive.com\/media\/2830252\">audiobook<\/a> format from the school library.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/libcat.csglasgow.org\/web\/arena\/overdrive-guide\">Find out more<\/a> about borrowing ebooks and audiobooks using the Libby app<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rights Respecting Schools Award recognises a school\u2019s achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice within the school and beyond. Every month the Castlemilk High School features one library book that highlights some articles from the UNCRC, helping to raise pupils&#8217; awareness of childrens&#8217; right. Our january [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24620,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-castlemilk-high-school","tag-rightsrespectingschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2025\/01\/23122807\/blog-banner-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}