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