Library Newsletter
March 2012
Author visit coming SOON!
Lampton student Rewarded
Award winning author Philip
Reeve will be visiting us at
Lampton School on Thursday,
March 8th
For those of you who read his
books or expressed an interest
in attending the event, the
Invitation list has been sent
to form tutors. Please speak to your
tutor to confirm you wish to attend by
Friday, March 2nd! Don’t miss out!
Most of Philip’s books will be on sale for
£3.00 in the library during break time and
after the session and he will be glad to
sign your new book at the event. Plus, you
will be able to ask him questions about his
books and being a published author.
Lampton student, Hania Fallah-Butt
recently received a certificate for Hard
Work and Achievement. Hania produced
an excellent, suspenseful short story
during a recent English tuition group run
by Ms.Sanderson and was then rewarded
by Ms. John.
Well done Hania!
His books for younger
readers:
 Buster Bayliss(2 Books)
World Book Day: MARCH 1st
STOP THE CLOCK
His books for older readers:
 The Mortal Engines Series
(4 books)
 Fever Crumb: the Prequel to the
Mortal Engine series( 3 books)
Everyone will be reading so make sure
you have a book from the library or
from home!
Photos will be taken of great readers!
His Novels:
 Here Lies Arthur
 Larklight
 Starcross
 Mothstorm
If you want to find out more about this
exciting author, have a look at his website:
http://www.philip-reeve.com/
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Library Website Update
Some new books and DVD’s
We are sorry to report that the new-look
Lampton School website does not yet
include the links to the library catalogue or
our remote-accessible online resources
such as Infotrac and Worldbook Online.
Here are some of the latest new items
available in the Library:
Code Geass. Lelouch of the
rebellion
/ Majiko , Ohkouchi,
Ichiro & Taniguchi,
Gorō
We are in the process of working with the
web designer and hope to have all of our
links available again to students as soon
as possible.
GCSE film studies for WJEC /
Garvey, Gerard, Fairclough, David
& Newman, Jackie
In the meantime, please use Fronter for
access to our services.
Thanks for your patience!
Fun Statistics
The outsiders / Coppola, Francis
Here is a selection of Lampton Top 3’s for
borrowing so far this year.
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The top three most popular Fiction books
from Lampton library are:
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid (28 loans)
 Dork Diaries (24 loans)
 Here lies Arthur (22 loans)
Do androids dream of electric
sheep? / Dick, Philip K.
The top three most popular DVD’s are:
 Alice in Wonderland (19 loans)
 Coraline (18 loans)
 Holes (17 loans)
Scrivener's moon / Reeve, Philip
And lastly, the top 3 most popular Nonfiction books for Lampton students are:
 AQA Science: GCSE revision
(15 loans)
 AQA Science: GCSE Science A
(14 loans)
 Key Stage 3 Science: the revision
guide (13 loans)
Where she went / Forman,
Gayle
The Science Department should be very
proud!
Ms Ellis & Ms Randhawa
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