Tuck Everlasting

1. Tusk Everlasting

   Tuck Everlasting  written by Natalie Babbitt and published in 1975 (39 years ago).

   
   

   

   
   

   Plot Summary. Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family whom she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, they're immortal.They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth.

   
   

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Opal Plumstead

This Week at Lit Club we introduced Jacqueline Wilsons 100th Novel,Opal Plumstead, which just launched on 9th October, below is information and a book trailer about this book.

OPAL PLUMSTEAD

JACQUELINE WILSON’S

100^TH NOVEL

 Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever. This is the brilliantly gripping new story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.

          

Awful Auntie and The Mute Button

This week at Lit Club we introduced 2 books called Awful Auntie by David Walliams and The Mute Button by Ellie Irving. Below is a presentation on these books.

David Walliams is laughing all the way to the bank after his new children’s book has notched up almost £1 million of sales in just three weeks.

The phenomenal success of Awful Auntie – the fastest selling book of the year so far – means that Walliams, 43, is set to become one of the country’s most successful children’s writers ever.

The book follows the fortunes of Lady Stella Saxby, a recently orphaned heiress, and her beastly Aunt Alberta, who will do anything in her power to get her hands on the child’s fortune.

A page-turning, rollicking romp of a read, sparkling with Walliams' most eccentric characters yet and full of humour and heart. From larger than life, tiddlywinks obsessed Awful Aunt Alberta to her pet owl, Wagner – this is an adventure with a difference. Aunt Alberta is on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance –. But with mischievous and irrepressible Soot, the cockney ghost of a chimney sweep, alongside her Stella is determined to fight back… And sometimes a special friend, however different, is all you need to win through

This is a hilarious new story from the author of Billie Templar's war. How do you make yourself heard in the midst of chaos?

Ten-year-old Anthony Button is one of five children in a big, mad family who all have a talent except him although he can name 403 different types of cheese. He has a suicidal cat called Badger, and hasn't yet found that one thing he's good at (besides eating cheese, of course). His family life changes when Ben arrives , the son Anthony’s father never knew he had.

Anthony isn't impressed and, in protest, decides to stop talking. The only thing is: will he be able to start again?

The Mute Button is a fantastic book, brilliantly conveying good messages. There's lots to be found in this book that some will relate to. Bullying at school, friendship cliques, loneliness,., This book is recommended for all primary students to read and hopefully take something from. Whether it's just to smile at the quiet girl every day, or think twice about calling someone a nasty name, it's all relevant and important to making the school environment a better, nicer place.

The Mute Button is a funny book - it will make you laugh out loud at times but it will also make you cry. As Ant’s silence carries on we see layers of family relationships peeled away, not only in the Button family but in the families around him. He makes new friends during his silence and comes to see that his old friends didn’t really care about or know him. He learns the lesson that we all have insecurities and secrets but we also all have something unique and worthwhile about us as well.

 

My Life as an Alphabet

This week at Lit Club we introduced a book called My Life As An Alphabet. Below is a presentation on this book.

Term 3 School Holiday Lit Club Book Quote Competition

OLA Lit Club

September School Holiday Competition

Find that favourite Book Quote!!!!

This School Holidays the Lit Club Competition is for you to find your favourite book quote from your most favorite picture books or childrens fiction books and share it with us. So the criteria is for you to email carolyn.mcdermott@ola.school.nz , subject = Lit Club

·      The Quote

·      The Book it came from

·      The Author of the book

·       Your name and year group

Example

Dr. Seuss,

Oh! The Places You'll Go

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose.

You're on your own.

And you know what you know.

And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

The Day the Crayons Quit

This term we shared at Lit Club this fabulously funny and thought provoking picture book … “The Day the Crayons Quit.” This book has won the American Booksellers Association's E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for Picture Books, and you will see why.  Here is a link to a book trailer..check it out!!!

Monday 15th September

Today at Lit Club we introduced a book called Never Odd or Even by John Townsend. What do you notice about this title.

Never Odd Or Even 

(A detective story with a difference)

John Townsend

What do you notice about the title of this book ??

Elliot is twelve. He's obsessed with numbers and letters, especially palindromes. He loves to spend his spare time playing about with words or numbers, when he can avoid school bully Victor Criddle, his arch-enemy. But when the biggest mystery that struck his school in the history of the world has to be solved, Elliot's forced to use all of his brain power.

This is a short, quick read which is definitely going to interest you if you love playing about with numbers and words. It's packed full of palindromes, anagrams and weird and wonderful number facts, but it's also got an engaging narrator and a clever plot. Just how clever the plot is doesn't really become apparent until the end -

This is a refreshingly different story which is  Well worth reading and it gets you thinking as the narrator tries to solve  the mystery and engages the reader throughout. Towards the very end that is when readers are really challenged to work out tclues, solve puzzles and find the culprit.

What is a Palindrome 

A word or phrase that reads the same in either direction 

What is an Anagram 

Rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to make another word or phrases.

Complete the Palindromes with either one word or two words from the list of words provided below.

1. Drab as a fool , aloof as a _______________
2. Draw pupil’s lip _________
3. Murder for a jar of _______    _________
4. No Lemon , No ____________
5. Rise to Vote,  ___________
6. Senile ______________
7. Stack _______________
8. Step on no ________
9. Was it a car or a _____  I _______
10. Yo, Banana ______

Boy, Cats , Felines, Red, Rum, Melon, Bard, Upward, Cat, Saw, Pets, Sir

Monday 8th September

Monday 8th September

William Shakespeare also known as the

 "Bard of Avon”

  William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language
   
    Born: April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

    Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
    Married: to Anne Hathaway

He wrote 37 plays and 154 Sonnets (First play he wrote was said to be Henry VI and his last play was said to be ‘The Tempest”)
Some of his Famous plays include  ….
Hamlet, MacBeth,As you like it, Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear,Anthony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Most Famous Sonnet = Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summers day”….

Master of the English language, Shakesspeare is attributed with creating hundreds of words and phrases in the English language. Here are some common words that first appeared in Shakespeare’s plays
Auspicious  ,Dexterously , Dwindle , Watchdog – Luggage
& phrases/quotes as follows
“Whats done is done “ (Macbeth)
“My Salad days when I was green in judgement” (Antony & Cleopatra)
"All that glitters isn’t gold" (Merchant of Venice)       
"Wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve" (Othello)
“Nothing comes from nothing” (King Lear)
"Break the ice" (The Taming of the Shrew)”
To thineself be true”(Hamlet)
"Clothes make the man" (Hamlet)
"A laughing stock" (The Merry Wives of Windsor) -    •   
"Too much of a good thing" (As You Like It)     “
"In a pickle" (The Tempest) -

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare's works .The Globe Theatre was constructed in 1599 & owned by Shakespeare and other investors. The Globe was the primary home of Shakespeare's acting company beginning in late 1599, and it is a possibility that As You Like It was written especially for the occasion. 400 years later you can still visit The Globe. Click this link to take a virtual tour