Immanuel College Book Award 2007

Wednesday, 5th December 2007

The Book Award Selection Committee has spent this term engrossed in reading the many nominations we received for the most riveting read. After much lively debate and deliberation we have produced a list of six books which we hope everyone will enjoy reading. Voting for the most riveting read will take place in May 2008.

The English Department will be doing work with students in years 7, 8 and 9 related to the short list at the end of the Pesach Term 2008, so year 7, 8 and 9 students will need to have read at least one of the books on the list by February 2008.

I would like to thank everyone on the Book Award Selection Committee for their enthusiastic and thoughtful reading and contributions to our discussions.

Happy Reading!

Janet Leifer ? Librarian

The Book Award Selection Committee present the final short list of six books:

The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Nominated by Ariel Sint 11NA

Follow Arthur Dent on his bizarre journey through the Galaxy after the Earth is unexpectedly demolished.

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Nominated by Abraham Sofer 8GDS

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Was he pursued to his death by the legendary Hound of the Baskervilles or was someone else bent on destroying Sir Charles and his heir?

The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

Nominated by Stephania Lawrence 8DH

An abandoned orphan is cared for by two servants in 19th century Vienna, but then a mysterious woman appears claiming to be her long lost mother. Why?

The Wind Singer by William Nicholson

Nominated by Daniel Bently 7DMO and Ariel Sint 11NA

In Aramanth, exams are everything. When Kestrel rebels, her family are sentenced to the harshest punishment. In order to save them and to restore happiness to Aramanth, Kestrel knows she must restore the voice of the wind singer.

I Am the Great Horse by Katherine Roberts

Nominated by Mrs. Leifer (staff)

The story of Alexander the Great and his war horse Bucephalas told at a galloping pace.

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Nominated by Emma Gold 8CS and Hannah Harris 8CS

A teenage girl is killed in a hit and run accident and finds herself in ?Elsewhere?, where life goes on much as on earth except that its inhabitants get younger.