Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing

Library account for Sydenham High School GDST, an independent school offering a first-class education for girls aged 4-18.

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

Our ⁦@bigpotatogames⁩ Mayhem in the Library jigsaw puzzle is finished! ⁦@SydenhamHigh⁩ 😀

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: https://t.co/g6ay9IK84f

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

My reading manifesto launched today for
#MichaelRosenDay

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

We're SOOO excited to be welcoming Kiran Millwood Hargrave to @SydenhamHigh as part of her @GDST book tour. 😃Remember to pre-order books to guarantee a copy. @HachetteKids @KirkdaleBooks

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

We're very excited to be participating in the GDST Book Award 2025 again this year - what a great list of titles for our students to read! #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh @HeadSydHigh

[BHSA_LRC @BHSALIBRARY]

We are excited to announce the GDST Book Award 2025 shortlist 👏
@ahoffmanwriter @scholasticuk @WelshDragonParr @KidsBloomsbury @RavenaGuron @simonschusterUK @ClareFurniss @Usborne @Sally_Nicholls @AndersenPress @GDST
Huge congratulations to all the authors and publishers!

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

Two more @AccReader Word Millionaires in Y7 today - well done to Willow and Zoe! #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

Congratulations to our new @AccReader Word Millionaires - Charlotte, Aiko and Anna I in Y8, and Safia in Y7! Over 32 million words read so far this year by Y7/8! 👏 #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh @HeadSydHigh

[Christopher Edge @edgechristopher]

Books help children make sense of the world, provide an escape from it and maybe even inspire them to build a better world, so I hope we act to help this young generation, who have borne so much, connect to the joy of reading - an "invisible privilege" that lasts for a lifetime.

[Tom Palmer @tompalmerauthor]

A difficult read, but this section below is what makes me want to redouble my efforts to encourage reading for pleasure. Reading does all this for me. And more.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure https://t.co/uzdjngzvZN

[CILIP @CILIPinfo]

Today, CILIP co-hosts a Parliamentary reception celebrating the positive impact of how #LibrariesChangeLives by Creating Opportunities. Thanks to Laurence Turner MP & 11 library sector organisations, the event connects policymakers & the library sector. https://t.co/aM8W3Mittb

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

Well done Y7 and Y8 for passing 308 @AccReader book quizzes this half term - that's nearly 22 million words! And congratulations to our 3 Word Millionaires Helene, Ella and Anna R! 👏 'ReadingforPleasure @SydenhamHigh

[Teresa Cremin CBE @TeresaCremin]

Delighted our paper on the need to widen professionals' repertoires of children's texts has reached nearly 4k readers! https://t.co/Xw9leoDNuI
Moving beyond our childhood canons matters! 📕📗 @jonnybid @WorldBookDayUK @Booktrust 📕📗 Read on +find ways forward! @OpenUni_RfP

[Frances Hardinge @FrancesHardinge]

A lovely surprise this morning. FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (my collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett) is in the @guardian's roundup of the best new chapter books!
https://t.co/H3wMxWq9hL

[Bernardine Evaristo @BernardineEvari]

Hotting up the publicity before the #mrloverman series, adapted by Nathaniel Price drops on @BBC 1 tomorrow at 9pm, but you can watch all eps back to back on @BBCiPlayer from then. I've written an essay in the Guardian about writing the novel @PenguinUKBooks, published 2013; AND it's the @guardian 'Pick of the Week for TV' ("A beautiful adapatation")!🙂 Also an interview with me in the Independent yesterday. @fablepicsuk STARRING Lennie James, Sharon D Clarke & Ariyon Bakare. Director: Hong Khaou. (Sorry, no comments, you can imagine why.)
https://t.co/xBv4e9dhMC

[The Diverse Book Awards @The_DBAwards]

The Diverse Book Awards 2024 Winners! What a foursome!

#TheDBAwards
#thediversebookawards

[Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing @SydHighLibrary]

Our first jigsaw of the year completed today. 😀 #readingforpleasure #puzzle #brainpower ⁦@SydenhamHigh⁩

[Netflix @netflix]

Heartstopper Season 3 is "tomorrow" 🍂

[Tolkien Society @TolkienSociety]

On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published.

The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies as one of the best-selling books of all time

[Frances Hardinge @FrancesHardinge]

FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES, my latest collaboration with the brilliant Emily Gravett, was yesterday released into the wild! In fact, Forest _is_ the wild, and is coming after you with strangling vines, giant eagles, venomous deer and malign intent! Er... in a good way?