Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+)
MISS UNDERSTANDING: MY YEAR IN AGONY by LARA FOX
Sixteen-year-old Anya has moved from a fee-paying school to a comprehensive after her parent’s acrimonious divorce. She starts an anonymous blog and becomes the school agony aunt. ‘She tells it like it is’: the problems and advice are at times sad, hilarious and quite explicit. The language is clever, the references to TV, music and so on refreshingly contemporary, loadsa celeb and brand name drops, txt msgs, etc. The plot takes an interesting swerve where blog and real life merge. An original, strong new voice in light teen fiction.
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Snow, snow and more snow - we thought we had seen enough of it in February but in Roscrea Library, the exhibition room is covered with it for this year’s Tidy Towns Competition.
The theme this year - ”A Snow Scene in Roscrea”. The competition was launched on a cold snowy day in January, and really caught the imagination of the children. All the local primary schools from Junior Infants up to Sixth Class participated, and there are several hundred posters of snowmen, parks, monuments, heritage buildings etc, all covered in snow and in many cases it looks as if snow is falling in the pictures.
The competition has now been judged and the schools have been notified of the results. Prize-winners and their families, together with their teachers and principals are invited to attend the Presentation of Prizes which takes place in the library on Monday March 15th at 7 p.m.
The posters are on display in the library, and will remain on show until the end of the month. This is an exhibition of Children’s Art not to be missed.
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Library Ireland Week will be celebrated from March 8th to March 13th this year. A number of events will take place at Tipperary Libraries’ branches to mark the occasion. At Nenagh Library, Kiddies Storytime and Colouring will take place on Wednesday 10th March at 11.15 a.m and is open to all. The next monthly meeting of Nenagh Library Book Club will also be held during Library Ireland Week on Thursday 11th at 7.00 pm. Please note that the following two events are being run in connection with local schools and are closed events. Book Themed Craft Sessions with Olive Kilgannon will be held on Tuesday 9th and Dr Seuss Day with Storytime and class Library Visit takes place on Wednesday 10th.
The first meeting of the newly-formed Knitting Group will be held in Roscrea Library on Monday 8th March at 7.00 pm. This event is free and all are welcome.
Carrick Library are holding childrens’ competitions for Library Ireland Week. Colouring for the under 6’s, a poetry competition for ages 7-9 and a crazy story competition for those aged 10 and over. The closing date is 13th March. Pick up your entry form in Carrick Library.
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Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland ( 9-12yrs)
ALICE TO THE RESCUE by JUDI CURTIN
Megan doesn’t want her best friend to go to France and leave her alone for four months. However, after she makes a wish that Alice will have to stay in Limerick, even she is surprised by the consequences! This is a touching story about the ways friendship can fix even the most seemingly difficult problems. With delightful characters and mini-adventures along the way, this is a perfectly heartfelt story that all pre-teen and teenage girls can relate to.
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McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy
Pete McCarthy was born in England to an English father and an Irish mother. His childhood summers were spent in Cork with his mother’s family and this gave him a sense of belonging in Ireland. In “McCarthy’s Bar” he recounts his travels from Cork Donegal via Lough Derg. He has many travelling “rules” the most often mentioned one being never to pass a pub with his name over the door. Pete sets off on his journey in a rickety old car and discovers a sense of belonging in a country that he’s adopted as his own.
“McCarthy’s Bar” is a funny and light-hearted book. It is an easy read with many “laugh-out-loud” moments. It is also a reflective and sometimes nostalgic book as he recalls the Ireland he experienced on his holidays as a child and compares it with the bungalow besieged Ireland of the 1990’s. This book is very funny and very easy to read.
Labryrinth by Kate Mosse is a grail quest tale which starts out in present day with Alice on an archaeolgical dig on the side of a mountain in Carcassonne in France where she discovers a cave filled with secrets. The story then turns to 13th centruy France where we’re introduced to Alais who is living through the Fourth Crusade which was launched against the Cathars who were charged with heresy. The Cathars are used in this novel to represent a kindly, antiracist, tolerant force and it not unitl three quarters of the way through the book that we are told that their heresy is based around the belief that the world was created by the devil and we are in fact living in hell. This is one of the only annnoying things about the book as the heresy is referred to throughout the text and the explaination comes quite late in the story. [Read more →]
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Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (12 - 14yrs)
THE DEMON’S LEXICON by SARAH REES BRENNAN
This sophisticated novel features a plot which moves upwards, downwards and sideways, twisting and turning in numerous unpredictable directions. At its centre is an engrossing tale of two teenage brothers on the run with their mother, as they try to evade the clutches of a sinister circle of magicians. The potent blend of magic, necromancy and demonology provides the material for a novel guaranteed to appeal to fans of gothic fantasy.
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Have you ever listened to the Irish News and realised you understood more than you thought? Would you like to meet other people who understand Irish, but, do not have the confidence to speak it?
Ba mhaith le Leabharlann Durlas Éile cuireadh a thabhairt oraibh chun teach to dtí an leabharlann í gcomhair Seachtain na Gaeilge - Maidin Caife De Luain 8ú Márta ag 11.00 am.
Thurles library would like to invite you to their Seachtain na Gaeilge coffee morning on March 8th at 11.00pm.
Other events include the launch of our new “Comhrá Ghaeilge” on March 25th at 7.00pm. The aim of the “Comhrá” is to give people a chance to chat in Irish and we welcome everyone regardless of their level of Irish.
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Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+)
