Code Read Christmas

 

Check out our new Code Read books in the Library and get your Christmas reading sorted. Be more Santa!

You can see some of the fantastic books in the collection below:

Reading Schools - Manga

In a galaxy far, far away, our manga and anime fans in the library decided to help Mrs Lumsden obtain some new books for the library. Budgets are tight but they knew that Reading Schools (Scottish Book Trust) might be able to help...

They trudged to Modern Languages and begged the guru of all things movie related (aka Mr Haddad) to help them in their quest for more manga. They also sought the assistance of Dr Manga, who told them all the ways that manga and graphic novels could improve their reading.

And so, the epic application video was created and the Reading Schools agreed that we should have more manga.

Reading school - fund application

Code Read

 

We are delighted to announce that we and school libraries across Scotland have been awarded funding for our Code Read project. 

The Scottish Libraries and Information Council awarded us funding under the School Library Improvement Fund to encourage pupils to read fiction, develop their media literacy, and create a playable game. 

This will enable us to create a core reading list with titles suitable for each year group. Pupils would be asked to choose and read at least one book from the list. Based on the themes and characters in one of the Core Reads, pupils will then create either:

• an offline plan or storyboard of their proposed game; or 
•  a digital game 

Submissions will be uploaded to Basecamp for pupils at other Code Read schools to play and comment on.  A winner will be chosen by each school that will then go forward to a national final where pupil - teacher- librarian judges will vote on each category: 

• Read ‘em Up Award- Made me want to read the book after playing 
• Battle Royale Award - Most playable 
• Boss Award - Most books read 
• Avatar Award - Best character created 
• NOOB Award – Participation 

There will be a meeting in the Library at lunchtime on 12 December to discuss this.

SOME LIKE IT COLD by Elle McNicoll

 Having read Elle McNicoll’s other books, I was intrigued as to how her first foray into YA would fare. I will confess that I was little disappointed at first as I thought it was going to be the archetypal “rom com” churned out regularly on the Hallmark channel, with the golden girl loved by everyone, the evil older sister and the broodingly handsome Mr Darcy cipher. However, I soon realised that Elle had brought in many of the classic romantic tropes but there was much more to this story. For me, by far the best part of the story was Jasper’s neurodiversity which was described in an achingly effective way. I enjoyed the setting; who can resist a small-town vignette in the run up to Christmas? The characters were well written, and Elle fleshed out the selfish older sister and brooding boyfriend admirably. The minor characters also felt real. Best of all, there was a lovely happy ending, as you would expect with a rom com. I’m looking forward to recommending this to neurodivergent readers and those who love a great romance.

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