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...