Ginnette Cameron-Gardner – Primary Teacher/Librarian

Congratulations to 14 more students who have completed the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge this week, all in Year 1.

In alphabetical order:

Veronica Aronov, Jack Botsman, Zachary Churnin, Amy Goldstein, Nathan Joshua, Ciel Kat Sharabani, Zoe Laurence, Ethan Likht, Zoe Lyons, Neve Rubinstein, Reina Steiner-Carrion, Orlando Van der Starre, Tal Wajsman and Nava Weiss.

This week’s article is about series written by a Sydney author Jacqueline Harvey. She was a teacher and then Deputy Head and still enjoys visiting schools.

The Primary Library holds 16 of the Alice-Miranda series and has on order #17 Alice-Miranda in Scotland. Alice-Miranda is seven and one-quarter years old in the first of the Alice-Miranda series and is slowly aging. She is just over 10 years old in the latest book, #17, Alice-Miranda in Scotland.  She is a resilient girl who loves a challenge, she has a prodigious memory, sees the good in people, loves her school and has adventures set in many different places and countries including Paris, Japan, Scotland and Hollywood, all places that the author has visited and evidences her knowledge of them in the story. This series has won Industry and Children’s Choice awards and is published in many countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil (for Portuguese translation), Hungary and Germany. The series has also been optioned for television.

The Clementine Rose series was the next series started. Clementine Rose is a kind, helpful honest girl who is five years old in the first book and the series is suited to a younger reader. This series has been sold to the United Kingdom and Brazil and is available in the United States. In 2015 Clementine Rose and the Seaside Escape was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) in the Younger Readers Category. This series is not as popular with our readers who are keen readers of the Alice-Miranda series

We have on order the first two books in Jacqueline Harvey’s new series, Kensy and Max. This is a spy series in which eleven-year-old girl and boy twins have adventures. The plotting is fast-paced and there are clues and codes throughout the story which will appeal to boys and girls.

Happy reading.