Keith Charters

Keith Charters is coming to visit Primary Six on Tuesday 2nd March 2010. Keith is the author of the Lee stories - Lee and the Consul Mutants, Lee Goes for Gold and Lee's Holiday Showdown.

In the first book, Lee is an accident prone boy whose burst appendix lands him in hopspital. While in hospital he finds out about a daring plan by the consul mutants, the men in white coats, to take over the world. Somehow, Lee has to stop them with only the power of his own intelligence (not much!) and his friends. Needless to say, things do not go according to plan for Lee.

There is a new book due out later this year where Lee heads out into space, with all the seen and unforeseen disasters that will be caused!

Cressida Cowell

And now for something completely different ...


Cressida Cowell is well known for her stories about Hiccup and Toothless, Emily Brown is a heroine of a quite different nature. Emily and her rabbit Stanley have lots of wonderful adventures exploring jungles, deserts and the depths of the ocean. Queen Gloriana would love to have adventures with Stanley too, and tries to persuade Emily to swap him. The Queen offers more and more, and Emily is not prepared to swap. Until the day when she wakes up to find Stanley isn't there - and Emily gets angry!




Yes, I know the film is coming out soon - more on Hiccup later. Meanwhile, enjoy.

Joshua Mowll - The Guild Trilogy

Set in the 1920s, the Guild Trilogy is an Indiana Jones style action adventure story. Rebecca and Douglas Mackenzie are moved from one relative to another after their parents disappear into the trackless wastes of the Sinkiang Desert in western China. Eventually they are taken on by their uncle, who undertakes to educate them at sea on board his ship the Expedient. The MacKenzies come up against pirates, mercenaries, hostage-takers and all the forces of nature - from a tropical storm at sea to a sandstorm in the desert.

Most dangerous of all are the members of a secret society, the Honourable Guild of Specialists. Becca and Doug's parents were members of the Guild when they disappeared. Since then, something seems to have gone awry, and there is no-one to turn to, or trust.....

Read Eleven in Primary Seven

The Book Week challenge for Primary Seven is now underway. You have to read one book from each of eleven different genres between now and Friday 30th April 2010.

There are eleven genres to choose from, plus you can count a book of your own choice if you really, really do not like one of the other choices.

There are lots of mini displays around the library to help you with ideas for each genre, and lots of help and advice available from your teacher and library staff.

So let's go for it - it works out at just under a book per week - we can do this!

Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year to you all and let's make 2010 the best year yet for reading.

Many of you have already made a good start by reading lots of different things over the school holidays, everything from Twilight and Beast Quest, to annuals like the Beano, to the instructions on your new computer game.

There is a display of Scottish writing in the library at the moment. We are looking at books written about Scotland, in Scots and in English, by writers who are Scottish or are living and working in Scotland. Some of the titles might surprise you, others will be well known. Have a look and borrow anything that you would like to read.

Remember the Scots Verse competition will be happening soon - why not get a head start?

Lots of us have been borrowing books for reading over the school holidays. If you would like to borrow some extra books, remember the library will be open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes next week.


If you have books sitting at home that you haven't got round to reading yet, bring them in and exchange them for something new.

Mark Walden's visit to Primary Seven

Primary Seven had a fantastic morning with Mark Walden, author of the H.I.V.E. series of books. Mark talked about his ideas and inspirations and his own way of looking at the world. Why are there lots of Evil Geniuses, for example? Why no Heroic Genius? Are villains naturally more intelligent? - Otto Malpense would definitely agree with that notion!

Mark has an encyclopaedic knowledge of film and storybook villains, there didn't seem to be a single one he hadn't come across at some time.

The H.I.V.E. stories themselves are exciting, funny and a very very good read. We hope you all enjoy reading them. The fifth book in the series Rogue is due out in 2010. We are all very grateful to Mark's publishers Bloomsbury who made this visit possible.

And I'm going to be reading Dreadnought over the holidays....