Calling all the BH Potter heads in Year 5 and 6. Your school library is holding the Harry Potter quiz and one of you could win your very own Harry Potter popup book. All you have to do is write your answers on a piece of paper with your name and class on the top, […]

Andy Shepherd’s ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ is the perfect series for ages 7-9 and now you can discover where she got her inspiration from, how she plans her stories, and more. About The Author: Andy Shepherd is a children’s writer working on stories for 5-12 year olds. Growing up on the Essex coast, she spent […]

Extract from- My Awesome Japan Adventure: A Diary about the Best 4 Months Ever! by Rebecca Otowa Lets Discuss •  What do you eat for breakfast? •  Have you ever tried any of the foods described in the book? •  Would you enjoy taking a trip to Japan?

New Library arch to welcome all the little learners and explorers in the library Key Stage 1 Year 1 had their first visit to the library Year 1 had a story time in the library Children were mesmerized to see so many amazing books in their school library Key Stage 2 Year 6 Intervention groups […]

It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became Enemy Number One. Luckily, Dad has a surefire way to get rid of enemies – Enemy Pie. Written by: Derek Munson Illustrated by: Tara Calahan King Published by: Chronicle Books Read by: Camryn Manheim Run time: 10 minutes How did the […]

There are no mirrors in my Nana’s house. No mirrors to reflect the cracks in the wall, the clothes that don’t fit, the trash in the hallway. No mirrors. But there is love. The beauty in this child’s world is in her Nana’s eyes. It’s like the rising of the sun… Written by: Ysaye M. Barnwell […]

Kameeka is confident that today she will finally beat her rival, Jamara, and become the Hula-Hoopin’ Queen of 139th Street. But then Mama reminds her that today is their neighbor Miz Adeline’s birthday, and Kameeka has a ton of chores to do to get ready for the party they are hosting. Kameeka’s disappointed to be […]

Life is sweet for Benedict. Every morning he wakes up to find jars of fresh honey on his back porch. He makes honey toast for breakfast, bakes honey cake in the afternoon, and drinks honey tea before bed. But one day, the jars on Benedict’s porch are empty. The bees in his backyard have gone on strike! […]

Brrr! Georgie wakes up to a freezing morning in 1920’s Pennsylvania and gets the bad news that there is no coal to heat the farmhouse—and he knows there is no money to buy more, either. Just after he finds this out, along comes his friend Harley, who drags him off on an adventure to find some mysterious […]

Before everyone recycled…there was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do?  Enter the Garbage Barge! This mostly true and completely stinky story is sure to make you say “Pee-yew!” Written by: Jonah Winter Illustrated by: Red Nose Studio Published by: Schwartz & Wade Books Read by: Justin Theroux Run time: 11 […]

This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighbourhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community centre. Written by: Tanya Lee Stone Illustrated by: Kathryn Brown Published by: Henry Holt and Company Read by: Kiernan Shipka Run time: 9 minutes Why would a wealthy young […]

Do you know you can still borrow a library book from the Coventry library website? The service is called Borrowbox. All you need is your library card and pin. To sign in first click the following link. https://fe.bolindadigital.com/wldcs_bol_fo/b2i/login.html?b2bSite=3323&targetSite=mainPage.html&fromPage=1 Then the page will appear like the one below, enter your Library card number and pin number. […]

Marissa loves candy – maybe too much. When she wakes up with a toothache, her mother takes her to the dentist, and on the way, Marissa notices a man sitting on a grate on the sidewalk to keep warm. So begins a day that Marissa will never forget. Written by: Avi Slodovnick Illustrated by: Manon Gauthier Published […]

Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren’t any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems […]

If there was anything in the world better than playing baseball, Marcenia Lyle didn’t know what it was. As a young girl in the 1930s, she chased down fly balls and stole bases, and dreamed of one day playing professional ball. With spirit, spunk, and a great passion for the sport, Marcenia struggled to overcome […]

At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut – round, cakey, iced and sprinkled, with a hole in the middle. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, […]

Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids at her school don’t like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact she is so worried that she’s about to break out in… A Bad Case of Stripes Written by: David […]

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their […]

Young Mason Steele takes pride in turning his father’s excited ramblings about the latest civil rights incidents into handwritten business letters. One day Pa comes home with a gift from his civil rights group: a typewriter. Thrilled with the present, Mason spends all his spare time teaching himself to type. Soon he knows where every […]