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Kids Book Club

Kieran Mark Crowley – May 22nd @ The Reading Room

April 21, 2010
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Colm and the Lazarus Key has been shortlisted for The Bisto Book of the Year Award the most prestigious awards for children’s books in Ireland.
A spooky adventure tale that also deals with real life issues of bullying and personal relationships. Colm is not looking forward to spending a fortnight with his cousin, The Brute, but [...]

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Junior Book Club – May

April 21, 2010
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Big Nate: The Boy with the Biggest Head in the World – Lincoln Peirce
Big-Head Nate Wright truly believes he is destined for Greatness.  So why is he having such a bad day? He barely survives his Dad’s toxic porridge, accidently body slams his headmaster and insults his worst teacher, Mrs Godfrey (Godzilla). Big Nate is [...]

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Senior Book Club – May

April 21, 2010
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Colm and the Lazarus Key – Kieran Mark Crowley
Colm thinks that spending a fortnight with his cousin – The Brute- is the worst thing that can happen to him this summer. He’s about to find out that he is wrong. Very wrong!
While driving The Brute to his home in the country, Colm and his parents [...]

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Senior Book Club – April

March 22, 2010
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Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkles.  1956 Freddy and Polly have always known their father is a genius. So they’ve never minded helping him with his experiments. Even when that means being put into cryonic suspension-having their hearts frozen until their father wakes them up again.
They know it will only be for an hour or [...]

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Junior Book Club – April

March 22, 2010
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The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson.  Plop is a beautiful baby barn owl, perfect in almost every way, except for just ONE thing….. Plop is afraid of the dark!

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Senior Book Club – March

March 9, 2010
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.   One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 – the world’s second highest mountain – in honour of his younger sister, but when another member of his group fell ill, they turned around and Greg became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a poor village, [...]

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Senior Bookclub – February

January 23, 2010
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The Gates by John Connolly.  Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe’en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with [...]

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Junior Bookclub – December

November 12, 2009
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Olga da Polga is a guinea-pig with a wild imagination, and from the minute she arrives at her new home, she begins entertaining all the other animals in the garden with her outrageous stories. As well as telling all her tall tales, she also has time to get up to all kinds of mischief and [...]

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Senior Bookclub

November 12, 2009
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When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of [...]

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Kids Book Club Resumes

September 14, 2009

Our kids’ bookclub will restart after Summer break on Saturday 3rd October.
8yrs – 10yrs group beings at 11.30am and finishes at Noon.
11yrs – 13yrs group begins at 12.15pm and finishes at 12.45pm.

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