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Kildare Libraries Summer Stars Book Review Winner
Big Congratulations to Niamh, aged 6 from Newbridge Library is this week’s book review winner. Niamh’s Review Book Title: Little Red Riding Hood Author: Coleen Degnan Rating : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Review: I Loved this book. I enjoyed reading it and looking at the lovely colourful pictures. I liked it so much I… Read more
Aoife’s To Read Music Books List
Hello again from Aoife in Newbridge library. As I love music and books, here is a post which combines the two. These four books are all ones I hope to get stuck into at some point this year. Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen Synopsis In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed… Read more
Horrible Histories – The Awesome Egyptians
Author: Terry Deary Genre: Children’s Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Aoife, Newbridge library The Awesome Egyptians gives you some awful information about fabulous Pharaohs and poverty-stricken peasants – who lived an awesome 5,000 years ago! Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards and made revolting recipes for 3,000 year old sweets. History has never been so horrible! Each… Read more
Orla’s YA Book of the Month
Title: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13 3/4 Author: Sue Townsend Genre: YA General Fiction Review: by Orla O’ Brien (Kildare Town Library) Synopsis: Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents’ marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and ‘misunderstood intellectual’, Adrian’s painfully honest… Read more
Cruinniú na nÓg- Saturday June 12th 2021
Tomorrow is the day – A day of free creativity for children and young people Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of… Read more
Young Adult Fiction Recommendations for PRIDE Month
Post by Aoife Kerr, Leixlip Library Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if… Read more
