The Wrappers Recommend

Some suggestions from the April meeting. School holidays are a few days away, take some time to read one of these books and let us know what you think of it. 

Lyla by Fleur Beale 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 

Octavia's brood : science fiction stories from social justice movements  edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson

Re-Draft Writing Competition

There is a poster about the Re-Draft writing competition in the teens area at Paraparaumu Library and I mentioned it at the last Wrappers meeting. A brief summary is below and you can visit the Re-Draft website for detailed information. There are copies of past Re-Draft books at Kapiti District Libraries and we can photocopy an entry form for you if you would like to enter.

An annual creative writing competition for teenagers

Re-Draft is a nationally acclaimed collection of teenagers' writing, published each year by Clerestory Press. Any New Zealand teenager can enter their work using the form found in the back of each edition of Re-Draft. Entries can be any creative writing genre and will be judged by award winning New Zealand writers.

Love at First Chapter

You might like to try out a new website for teen readers called Love at First Chapter. It works like this:

Can't choose your next YA book?

Just like a good surprise?

​Sign up and we'll send you the first chapter of an awesome new YA book every two weeks, lovingly curated by us

No good? Delete the email

Love it? Get the book

You decide if it's #LoveAtFirstChapter

Of course 'get' the book could mean buy it or borrow it.  If we don't have the book and you think it sounds like something you want to read you could submit a Suggestion a Purchase form via the library website.  

The Wrappers Recommend

Lots of good reads to try this month. Click on the title to go to the catalogue to reserve the book you want. 

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Perfume by Patrick Suskind  

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Fallen by Lauren Kate  

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Octavia's Brood by Walidah Imarisha

The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

The Once and Future King by T H White

Tell the Moon to Come Out by Joan Lingard

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

The Minority Report by Philip K Dick

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

 

The Wrappers Recommend

Books recommended by the Wrappers at the February meeting. There are lots to choose from!

Maximum Security by Robert Muchamore

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Gone by Michael Grant

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (Not available through SMART)

Feed by M T Anderson

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Mort by Martin Chatterton

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Collected Works of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices series) by Cassandra Clare

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate di Camillo

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

The Wrappers Recommend

Looking for some holiday reading?  These books were recommended by the Wrappers at our final gathering for 2017.  A Neil Gaiman theme emerged as the meeting progressed and we decided to set a summer reading challenge - read a book by Neil Gaiman (one that you haven't read before).

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle by Kate de Goldi

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

The Mysteries of the Quantum Universe by Thibault Damour

Thing Explainer: complicated stuff in simple words by Randall Munroe

Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman