Our Library Offers Many Facilities

• A good selection of fiction and non-fiction books
• Magazines and Board Games
• Comfy Seats and Quiet Working Areas
• Photocopier
• Internet Access for Research
• Fortnightly Book Club and Chess Club
• Scholastic Book Club
• Annual Book Fairs

We have a selection of new books in the library this term:

• My Royal Story series - imagined accounts of queens and princesses from the past.

• Bear Grylls - fiction adventure series.

• Trash by Andy Mulligan  - 3 boys who live on a rubbish dump and discover something which changes their lives.

• Several classic stories such as Great Expectations, Robin Hood, Little House on the Prairie, Huckleberry Finn, Swiss Family Robinson.

• Closer - the fourth in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon.

• Various cook books and joke books

• 2 Moko the dolphin books
  

• World Atlas

• 2011 Guinness Book of Records
  

Lunchtime Librarians of the Term

Ten Monthly Most Popular Books of September 2011

Fiction - 2011 Holes by Louis Sachar Simpson Comics Belly Buster by Matt groening Travelling Restaurant : Jasper's voyage in three parts by Barbara Else Bart Simpson's guide to life by Matt Groening Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets by Dav Pilkey Hollie Chips by Anna Gowan Magenta in the pink by Echo Freer Matilda by Roald Dahl Pick 'n' mix : assorted Kiwi stories by Jenny Cooper 24 hours. It begins now... by Margaret Mahy

Non-Fiction - 2011 Edmonds Junior Cookbook by Mary Pat Fergus Pigling : a Cinderella story : a Korean tale by Dan Jolley 10 greatest threats to earth by Christopher Reaume, Enormous book of hot jokes for kool kids by Andy Jones, European fairy tales Horrible Facts Myths and legends by Anthony Horowitz, World War II by Simon Adams World's scariest joke book by John Byrne 10 most amazing animated movies by Sandra Quan-D'eramo,

Gisint Book Club - What Happens?

• Our Book Club is made up of Year 7 & 8 students who love to read
• The Book Club meets once a fortnight.
• Students make their own bookmarks to show they are members of the club.
• Each member has their photo taken and displayed on the notice board.
• Book Club members get to look at and choose from the new books coming into the school library.
• Book Club members can choose to promote their favourite books and recommend books for the library to buy and display.
• We read, write reviews and discuss the books so we can recommend them to other students at Gisborne Intermediate School.
• Book Club reviews are displayed in Gisborne Intermediate Library.
• Each meeting has a fun activity where prizes can be won.