Scholastic Book Club News - GROW YOUR HOME LIBRARY WITH THE FREE BOOK OFFER!

Issue 5 of Scholastic Book Club for 2022 will be handed out today and orders need to be placed by Monday 8 August.  Every child deserves access to quality and affordable books, and Scholastic Book Club offers great prices with Value Books as low as $3 on every issue of Book Club. Best of all, if you order on Issue 5 you can select FREE BOOKS! 

Place your Issue 5 order on LOOP to select up to 3 FREE BOOKS. To qualify all you have to do is spend over $30 and you can select 1 FREE book, or spend over $50 and you can select 2 FREE books or over $70 and you can select 3 FREE titles from a special online list. The list will display after you create your order and head to the checkout. 

It is easy to order. All orders are placed using  Book Club LOOP platform which allows parents to pay by credit card. Your child’s order is submitted directly to school safe and sound and the books will be delivered to class. You can place your child’s order at scholastic.com.au/LOOP or using the LOOP app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

Did you know that 20% of your Book Club order goes back to our school in Scholastic Rewards? These Rewards are redeemed on Books and Educational Resources which helps stretch our budget further.

Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge

The Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge finishes on 19 August. Students are required to give their completed reading records to Veronica Melville by Friday 19 August for verification. Students who are still completing the reading requirements are encouraged to speak to their teacher or school librarian for assistance and book recommendations.

Still looking for great reads? Check out the recent work of some of our CMRC Ambassadors.

10 Minutes of Danger is a book by Jack Heath. The book is a collection of short stories about asteroids, volcanoes, funnel web spiders and killer robots.

Tania McCartney has just finished writing the third book in the Plume picture book series. It is about a little penguin who travels the world – it’s called Plume: Festival Seeker. It will be out this November. Tania is also working on a massive Wildlife Compendium of the World book—She knows kids will love it! It’s out around May 2023.

Stephanie Owen Reeder’s latest narrative nonfiction picture book Swifty: The Super-fast Parrot, illustrated by Astred Hicks and published by CSIRO Publishing, is ready to take flight on 1 October.