News & Reviews
Get the Facts about Snapchat’s New Update
Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platforms used by tweens and teens. What is Snapchat? Because this popular messaging app allows teens to exchange user-generated photos, texts, videos, and calls and has a reputation as the sexting
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Staff Picks for #holidayreads
Holidays are the perfect time to catch up on reading and work through the pile of books on the bedside table. Here’s what some of our staff plan to read during the break. You might like to add them to
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Senior Book Club #holidayreads
Our Senior Book Club readers will be exploring YA novels that have alternative text types. We thought other readers might be interested in these innovative and challenging novels so put these on your reading list for the holidays.
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5 Inspirational Books for Girls in Middle School
Ms Stower shares her favourite inspirational reads for girls in the Middle School in her professional blog iPractice – a collection of ideas about school libraries and learning I am often asked to recommend “must read” books for girls of
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Making the Most of Feedback
As students head into exam sessions, it is important that they learn how to make the most of the feedback they receive after the exams are returned. It is also timely to remind students that the iCentre has a subscription
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Holiday Creative Writing Workshop
Attention all creative writers. The State Library of Qld is conducting the following Story Lab workshop on July 7th during the holiday break. We thoroughly recommend this to all of our budding writers. Wor(l)dplay: Creative Writing 13-16s (7 Jul) “In
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A Coming of Age Story
Clancy of the Undertow by Christopher Currie is a thoughtful, coming of age story. It is a mature read and more suited to our YA senior fiction readers (15+). Graphic Book Review
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Meet Our New Team Member
It is a great pleasure to introduce Bec Bonavia who has recently joined the iCentre team as our new Library Assistant. Bec is a mum of two and is a mad keen reader. She has a background in office management, has
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Top 10 Novels
These are the Top 10 novels that have been borrowed this semester. If you are looking for your next read, pick any from the list and see what everyone else is enjoying. Make sure you write a review on the
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