SANTA SABINA YOUTH REVIEW FORUM
Four of our talented readers from Year 9 and 10 did a fantastic job participating in the Santa Sabina Youth Review Forum, along with students from Santa Sabina, St Patrick’s College, Strathfield and Meriden College. The forum members, George Johnson, Daniel Gibbons, Brendan Quirk and Cameron Horne, were asked to read four of the six books shortlisted by The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for the 2017 Book Awards in the Older Readers Category and then discuss their responses to the novels with other students, in front of an audience of around 150 Year 10 Santa Sabina students. A special mention to Cameron Horne who was the only panel member to read all six of the shortlisted books.
The nominations for Book of the year 2017 were, One Would Think the Deep by Claire Zorn, The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon, Waer by Meg Caddy, Yellow by Megan Jacobson, Frankie by Shivaun Plozza and Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley. It is a somewhat controversial selection of novels, with all but one dealing with social realism and four of the six written by debut authors.
The students on the panel, as well as the Year 10 Santa Sabina audience concluded that Words in Deep Blue was the book which most appealed to them, with The Bone Sparrow coming a close second. Their choice was not endorsed by the CBCA who awarded Book of the Year for Older Readers to Words in Deep Blue by Clair Zorn at the CBCA awards. While this was not the panel’s top pick, it was a book most of the panel members very much enjoyed reading.
This is a wonderful opportunity for teenagers from a range of schools to come together an openly discuss a range of books.
Brendan Quirk – Y9, Cameron Horne – Y9, George Johnson – Y10, Daniel Gibbons – Y10 with Paul McDonald from the Children’s Bookshop
Books & Blokes Breakfast – Paul Field – We have 20 places available
When: Tuesday 29 August, 2017 (Week 7)
Where: Resources Centre
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Paul Field, Joeys Old Boy (79), is a singer, producer, director and managing director of The Wiggles.
His new book, Gimme Shelter, contains stories of courage, endurance and survival from the frontline and back home: For many returned service men and women, coming home is when the battle really begins.
Read the deeply personal and often hidden stories of 16 special men and women whose greatest struggles have been the return to everyday life after service or dealing with the loss of loved ones who lost that battle.
