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Our West of Scotland school library's up to date book news and events. Come here to see what's happening in the world of teenage books!

East Kilbride, Scotland
Joined May 2021
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Another Scottish Football poem to get you in the mood for the football tonight. This is Calderglen High School Library signing off for the summer holidays. And hopefully looking forward to more Scottish football....
#PrimoPoetica31 - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿MORNING O THE MATCH by Alun Robert Another poem for our Collection. We are on the 'Road at the EUROS' and @JimCMackintosh is stoking our #PrimoPoetica Collection. Are you a #FootballBard? Submit here: hampdencollection.com/primop… #EUROS2020 #ScotchProfessors
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G I V E A W A Y ! The lovely people at Walker Books have given me an extra copy of All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donaghue to give away. It comes with a cassette tape USB stick and box of pink candles. Follow me and retweet to enter. Open worldwide. Ends 20.7.21 8am GMT.
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If you're lucky enough to have a brilliant local bookshop then you know how fantastic they are😊19-26 June is #IndieBookshopWeek so show them some love! Recommend them to friends, pop by, big them up & treat yourself to some new books while you're there 📚
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Just in time for getting home at the end of term, a great author reading event at 4pm on Thursday
Free event alert! Join me this Thursday at 4pm when I’ll be chatting about my latest historical mystery. 😀📚
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Reading books is quite fun.
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Nonverbal communication of the day.
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A great poem from Hollie McNish to energise and reflect on Tuesday
Happy #indiebookshopweek. Here's a poem about Otters made into an animation by Mark Faulkner, amazing student @GSofA. It's from Slug, which you can buy from @PortyBooks or, you know, a closer bookshop to you xxx
@CglenLibrary will be cheering on our national team tonight !
Let's do this. 🆚 Croatia v Scotland 🏆 UEFA @EURO2020 🕖 8pm 📍 Hampden Park 📺 @STVSport ➡️ Match preview: scotfa.co/croscoprv #EURO2020 | #SCO
Information Literacy is a key skill more now than ever before. Indeed it is at the ♥️ of a good library. Happy to help any pupil who needs more information literacy skills/information.
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Just what we all need when we are approaching the end of term !
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About to select a winner 🥁🥁🥁
🎉🎪WIN🎉🎪 a copy of Skyborn - Sinéad O’Hart's new fantasy novel that our reviewer describes as having "well-drawn characters and lashings of imagination." Review: booksfortopics.com/post/revi… To enter to win a copy, follow us on Twitter & retweet by 20/6 (Uk only).
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Summer solstice is the exact moment that we're tilted nearest to the sun giving us, in the northern hemisphere, our longest day. Marking the day we officially move into summer. At Stonehenge, this point happens at 21:26 this evening. Which is, now! #summersolstice
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Thanks so much to Miss Rhodes @CglenMusicDrama @CglenHighSchool for such a generous book donation! Available soon at the school library 📚📚😃😃
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Too sweet for words !
Wedding bells at Blackwell's Many many congratulations to this happy couple who visited the bookshop on their wedding day, after meeting for their first date here five years ago. Our day has been made! Thank you.
Today marks the 1st anniversary of the brutal murder of George Floyd and from that point to today I have been asked many different times of my own personal experience from losing Stephen.  A year on where are this senseless loss where are we now? thesun.co.uk/news/15052639/s…
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"Now that I have read, I want to make sure that the next generation have the opportunity to read." Footballer @MarcusRashford talks about the importance of reading with @jonsnowc4 and says he wants to show kids "they can do something other than being on the streets".
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Always a good start to receive a great donated book, thank you @QueerLit ! Juno Dawson's books are always a great addition to our library. #PrideMonth2021 #JunoDawson #LibrariesAreEssential #libraries
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To celebrate the present-giving season, and “The Gifted, The Talented and Me” being chosen as Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Year, I’ll send a signed & personally dedicated copy to someone who RTs this. And I’ll throw in a copy of my adult novel, “Otherhood”. Ends Friday.
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