The Library Scoop
Years 11 and 12; Term 2 2023
Welcome to Term 2!
Read on to find helpful information about our Library!
This edition includes:
- Research Guides
- AllSearch Tips and Tricks
- Newsbank - Database of Newspapers
- Reading - Popular and New Books
- Social Media
- Programs - Cre8 Lab
If you have any questions, please feel free to chat to Library staff or email the Library.
Research Guides
What are they?
Research guides are created for a unit or assignment topic. They will help you build an understanding around the subject topic and to begin researching.
Our guides include:
- Resources (helpful books, website and journal articles)
- Videos and images
- Links and suggestions to assist you with researching and referencing
Click on the button below:
AllSearch
AHS Library has a powerful online search engine that allows you to search all the resources available to students and staff in one easy location. It is a combination of the Library Catalogue, as well as all the databases and digital resources that the Library has access to.
It is located at the footer of every page in the Library website.
Helpful Tips
Use keywords effectively
Three tips:
- Use an asterix to search. For example, democra* can bring up resources that have keywords like democracy, democrat, democratic, etc.
- Use quotations marks to search for particular words in a particular order. For example, "Seneca Falls Convention" or "gold rush".
- Instead of subject terms, try authors or journals / magazine titles. For example, Frank Dikotter or "Australian Financial Review".
- Collect keywords as you research!
Refine results
Refine the results of your keyword search to get more accurate resources to your research question.
Best sections to refine:
- Full text - make sure it is selected.
- Publication date - find primary and secondary sources based on the publication date.
- Source Types - choose between news articles, book reviews, journal articles, magazines, and many more.
Organise and record the information you collect
Once you click on the title, don't forget to look at the 'Tools' on the right-hand side. Here there are options to...
- Print (print a PDF copy of the article).
- E-mail (e-mail information about this resource to yourself).
- Save (save a copy).
- Cite (collect the bibliographic reference for this article).
- Permalink (a permanent link to this article - make sure to use this if collecting a link for your research).
NewsBank
A database of newspapers from around the world!
Full digital copies of The Australian, The Courier Mail and other newspapers are available in digital format.
Click on the NewsBank image above to access our Newspaper Databases Library page and NewsBank link.
Reading
📚 The 3 most popular books for Senior Students!
ℹ️ Click on the book covers to see if the book is available in our Library.
The Midnight Library
The Stolen Heir
📚 New books recently added to our Library!
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Fiction
Babel: or, The Necessity of Violence
By R.F. Kuang
O FAN F KUA - CLICK HERE
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation-- also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic.
The Bookbinder of Jericho
By Pip Williams
O HIS F WIL - CLICK HERE
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho.
Fairy Tale: A novel
By Stephen King
O FAN SEN F KIN - CLICK HERE
When Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world - one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours.
The First Thing About You
By Chaz Hayden
O ROM F HAY - CLICK HERE
A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself. When new-boy Harris meets cute-girl-in-his-class Nory, he is determined to prove he is more than just the kid in the powered wheelchair.
A Hunger of Thorns
By Lili Wilkinson
O FAN F WIL - CLICK HERE
Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic -- and her best friend. Storytelling is her only gift that remains. Odette always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she's missing, and everyone believes she's dead. Everyone except Maude.
The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp: A novel
By Leonie Agnew
O DRA F AGN - CLICK HERE
Hannah Kemp is dealing with a traumatic accident for which she was responsible. Struggling to come to terms with her guilt, she is ostracized in a community that condemns her. She deals with this by rebelling and pushing away anyone that offers kindness or seeks to understand her. Crippled by her own guilt and anger, she comes across a mobile library bus where every book is the true story of someone’s life, and realizes that judgement of others is almost always shallow and uninformed. When she finds her own book … she also finds that her past can reshape her present.
Poster Girl
By Veronica Roth
O SCI F ROT - CLICK HERE
What's right is right" Sonya Kantor knows this slogan, she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom.
The Quiet and the Loud
By Helena Fox
O DRA F FOX - CLICK HERE
George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?
A Scatter of Light
By Malinda Lo
O DRA F LO - CLICK HERE
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer with her best friends -- one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist, Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable --
Selfie
By Allayne L. Webster
O DRA F WEB - CLICK HERE
Dene Walker picked me to be her best friend. She had the whole of Tonsley High’s year eight to choose from -- and she chose me. Me! Tully can’t believe her luck. Dene is famous. Everyone loves her. She has thousands of followers online and hundreds of sponsorship deals. Being best friends with Dene Walker is a dream come true. Tully is soon hardly aware that her long-time bestie, Kira, exists, as she shapes her own interests and cares to be the person worthy of Dene’s attention. And she’s not prepared for the heartache and confusion when Dene’s friendship is not all she imagined it to be.
Silver in the Bone
By Alexandra Bracken
O FAN F BRA - CLICK HERE
Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower - breaking into the ancient crypts of dark sorceresses, in search of treasure. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herself-- and her brother, Cabell-- alive. Ten years later, rumors are swirling that her guardian vanished with a powerful ring from Arthurian legend - a ring that could free her brother from a curse.
Slipping the Noose
By Meg Caddy
O HIS F CAD - CLICK HERE
Anne Bonny is chained up in the hold of a prison ship, nursing nine-month-old Molly. The baby is all she has left of Calico Jack, the swaggering pirate captain who loved her and stole her away to sea--and who now hangs from a gibbet. When armed men rip the child from her grasp, Bonny can do nothing and Molly seems lost. But Anne Bonny was not cut out for despair. She will plan for escape and rescue, and the plan will become action. And the streets of London will belong to her and her daughter--and the ragtag remnants of Calico Jack's crew.
Two Can Play that Game
By Leanne Yong
O DRA F YON - CLICK HERE
Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. She's willing to do anything to make her dream come true - even throw away a scholarship to university. All she needs is a super-rare ticket to a game design workshop and she can kickstart her career. So when Jay Chua, aka Jerky McJerkface, sneakily grabs the last ticket, it's war. Knowing how their Australian-Malaysian community works, Sam issues him an ultimatum: put the ticket on the line in a 1v1 competition of classic video games, or she'll broadcast his duplicity to everyone. Thank you, Asian Gossip Network.
Tyger
By S.F. Said
O FAN F SAI - CLICK HERE
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire is still a cruel ruling force, a young boy called Adam has uncovered something incredible in a rubbish dump in London - a mysterious, mythical animal. A Tyger. The Tyger is in danger, and Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help. However, they soon realise it isn't just the Tyger's life at stake: the world they live in is also on the precipice of darkness.
The Woman in the Library: A mystery
By Sulari Gentill
O CRI F GEN - CLICK HERE
The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine each have their own reasons for being in the reading room that morning-- and it just happens that one of them may turn out to be a murderer.
Non-Fiction
The Last daughter
By Brenda Matthews
BIO 305.89 MAT - CLICK HERE
When she was two years old, Brenda and her siblings were taken from their parents. For the next five years she was a much-loved daughter in a white family, a happy child in a country town on the outskirts of Sydney, unaware of the existence of her Aboriginal family or how hard her parents were fighting for her return - unaware of her Aboriginal identity. Then, suddenly, she was reunited with her birth family, the last daughter to come home.
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On from the Misogyny Speech
By Julia Gillard
304.42 NOT - CLICK HERE
On 9 October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard made her 'misogyny speech' (as her words became known) -- a speech which continues to energise and motivate women who need to stare down sexism and misogyny in their own lives. With many contributors, this book explores the history and culture of misogyny, tools in the patriarchy's toolbox, intersectionality, and gender and misogyny in the media and politics.
The Veg Box: 10 Vegetables, 10 Ways
By David Flynn and Stephen Flynn
641.563 FLY - CLICK HERE
AUBERGINE - BEETROOT - BROCCOLI - CABBAGE - CARROT - CAULIFLOWER - COURGETTE - LEEK - MUSHROOMS - POTATOES
Ten vegetables, ten ways, The Veg Box makes cooking veg easier and tastier than ever before! This vibrant book is packed with over 100 new recipes that use just ten ingredients or less and showcase the delicious and diverse ways you can enjoy each vegetable.
Social Media
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Programs
See a list of workshops and activities happening this term in Cre8 Lab!
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Sign up sheets are available at the Library front counter on Level 1.
References
All Hallows' School. (2023). Oliver Library Catalogue.
Images for books are sourced either from the author's websites or are book and film covers, used as permitted under copyright for promotion. Other images were created by the author using Canva.
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