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Thursday, 9 February 2017

YOUTH WEEK 2017

Youth Week is coming up!!

31 March - 9 April 2017

We will be making these sweet Comic Book Wallets at Manly Library during Youth Week!

Stay tuned for dates, times and further info.

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

New YA Books for January

Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven

Murder in Midwinter - Fleur Hitchcock

Highly Illogical Behaviour - John Corey-Whaley

Word Hunters: The Curious Dictionary - Nick Earls & Tery Windborne

The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily

River of Ink - Helen Dennis

The House of Eyes - Patricia Elliott

And I darken -- Kiersten White

Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake

Septimus Heap: Flyte - Angie Sage

Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom - Booki Vivat

The Otherlife - Julia Gray

Finders Keepers - Shelley Tougas

The Bricks that Built the Houses - Kate Tempest

The Colour of Darkness: The Book of Storms Trilogy #2 - Ruth Hatfield

Just Like the Movies: If Only... #7 - Kelly Fiore Stultz

The Last Boy and Girl in the World - Siobhan Vivian

Kids of Appetite - David Arnold

The Beginning Woods - Malcolm McNeill

Escape to the Moon Islands: Quest of the Sunfish Book 1 - Mardi McConnochie

Spontaneous - Aaron Starmer

Stealing Snow: Stealing Snow #1 - Danielle Paige

Swarm: Zeroes #2 - Scott Westerfeld

Lost Stars - Lisa Selin Davis

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Call - Peadar O'Guilin

Thursday, 5 January 2017

Book Club in 2017

The Manly Library Young Adult Book Club continues in 2017 with our first meeting to be on Tuesday the 14th February at Manly Library at 4pm.

We are reading Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.

Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia.
The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution.
Published for the first time in 1987, 3 years after the authors death, the missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900.

Drop by the library and pick up your copy to read before the meeting.

After you have read the book you may like to read the last chapter available here:
https://carusopascoski.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/secret_hanging_rock.pdf

Think about what the removal of this chapter means for the story, would you have preferred it included in the original text? does it spoil the mystery? Did you guess what happened to the girls before reading this chapter?