What shall I read now?

 

Something special ... you should read something special... When Ben Okri, the award-winning British author, was asked for a list of 10 books students should read before they left school, he offered '10 1/2 inclinations' instead.   You can also read it on the library noticeboard. It is the best! Use '10 1/2 inclinations' for your reading guide.

 

We have picked our Delany Books of the Year for 2008 In 2009 we are going to find another way to select books to shortlist. Remember.. ENJOY what you read! Reading is fun!

 

Delany students recommend ... Remember marking the covers of your favourite books and adding the books to a large display for International School Libraries Day? Well here are your choices. We have entered them on LibraryThing. Ask the library staff if you need help with this. Our user name is DCLibrary. Click 'cover' to see the books all lined up. Click 'tags' to choose a tag. Try a tag like 'Year7', to find what year 7 selected. Book lists Book lists from ASLA (NSW) Guys read - a great site for boys (and girls too) Book lists for boys from Trinity in WA Lists from USA From Moriah College library Book lists from Canada More books from Canada, suggested by students Database of Books made into movies If you enjoyed this, you might like... Gnoc suggests both authors and musicians. Click on suggestions Librarything has a 'suggester' too. You enter what you have enjoyed, they find you some titles. But do we have this book in the library? Check your title in Unicorn on the main page. Author pages Australian authors here Meg Rossof's top 10 for YAs Jacqueline Wilson's favourites Scott Westerfeld's blog Anthony Horowitz Malorie Blackman J K Rowling Darren Shan Philip Pullman Garth Nix Ursula le Guin Recommendations from the UK What are teens reading across the world? The BBC's TOP 21 from The Big Read Top authors (Rowling, Fine, Pullman, more) in the UK recommend .... World Book Day - Top 100 for 2007   Teen read/review and rate sites YARA is a review and awards site for young Australian readers You can: Read and write reviews Rate your books The awards are made at the end of every year.   WIRED FOR WORDS is Canadian site. Features books from all over Read and write reviews We have many of these books.   Audio books and more You listen to music? Now listen to books! These services have a fee. Discuss with your parents before ordering. Downloadable files for your mp3 player from audible.com. Requires annual membership to get cheaper books. Downloadable files for your mp3 player from librivox Librivox uses volunteer readers to make books in the publice domain available for us to download. Audio books on CD. We keep some in the library. Look for the video covers in the fiction collection. Ask for the discs at the desk. Your local library will have these for loan. Great to listen to on long car journeys.

Social networking sites for readers   Do you own a lot of books? This site allows you to enter and tag your books. Create your own online 'library catalogue' and share your comments with others. We are keeping our booklists on LibraryThing now.   'Inside a dog' is an Australian website for young people, about books. Here you can: read and write reviews our online author-in-residence - currently D M Cornish (He wrote 'Monster blood tattoo') win stuff preview upcoming titles read interviews with authors keep up to date with all the latest bookish news talk about books on the forum.   Here is something many people are doing ... Readers are marking and releasing books, then following their progress through this site. Who found your book? Where is it now? Readergirlz ... An online e-zine for girls Heaps of stuff here Plus music while you read.   Blogs for readers Readplus, a review site by adults. 'Just one more book' , a blog with reviews, interviews, podcasts from the USA Read a picturebook online International Children's Digital Library, provides picture books from many cultures and many languages. If English is not your native tongue, find a book from home here. Reading promotions 7 ways to build a better reader at home (from Scholastic) Getting published Maybe you are a writer. Here is some advice from the Children's Book Council. Contains some excellent Australian links. For Mums and Dads 7 ways to build a better reader at home (from Scholastic)

Downloadable books and emailed books Did you know that many books are out of copyright? That means they can be published on the web and downloaded for free! Sometimes authors waive copyright (see Baen Books) so that these can be downloaded for free too. The Gutenberg Project was the first to start uploading these books. There are a lot of classics here. No images or graphics though. This is also a very good example of a wiki. Google books searches all things to do with books, and includes full text and snippets. Google is digitizing several large libraries in the USA. Limited Australian as yet. Baen Books, publishers ,with permission from the authors, have a free library of downloadable Science fiction and fantasy books. Read a book from one of their authors, and read the rest from a library. If you like space adventures, start off with David Webber's 'The Honor of the Queen' or Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Mountain of mourning'. Choose your format. DailyLit This is a free email service. Select your book and they send you brief portion of a book each day via e-mail. It's mostly the "classics" out of copyright materials likr Mark Twain. They do have Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie. The e-mails are short, readable. This is one way to 'taste' a book, and if you want to read it faster, find it in Gutenberg or borrow it from the local library Amazon is more than the biggest online bookshop. Use it to locate books and to find reader comments. You can create lists and review material here too. This is one of the first successful Web 2.0 services.

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Last updated 22 August 2007