Spending the school holidays with her Uncle Ruben, an artist, is not Shey’s idea of fun, but her parents have gone off to dig things up in Egypt and she has no choice in the matter. When she discovers a mysterious pair of ruby opera glasses, Shey enters a famous painting, travelling back in time to a world of adventure, where friendships are formed and danger lurks everywhere.
She finds her Uncle Ruben has also entered this magical world and together they continue his search for his wife, Maria. Her loveable companion, Jasper, a feisty little pup, causes unforeseen problems which only faith and love can conquer. But who is leaving them the clues, and can Shey solve the mystery before her parents return and Ruben’s time runs out?
Follow Shey on this fast-paced journey through the world of art to the unknown and back. Make sure you check out The Mystery of the Ruby Glasses by Lindsay Cripps.
Hey, do you like cooking? Are you a chef in waiting? If you are, and you’re on the lookout for some tasty new recipes to try then have a look at this site. Real Meals is a recipe book put together in the UK with kid chefs in mind, using healthy food to create really tasty meals like crispy potatoes, chicken tikka, roast chicken legs and apple crumble. You can download the recipes and give them a go and impress your family and friends!
Eat your veges,
Bridget
Hey guys! If you are aged 7 to 8 make sure you join our BookBusters Book Club! Check out this clip …
Rick Riordan, our favourite author of the fab Percy Jackson series, is getting in on a new cool series: The 39 Clues*. The books are connected to an interactive website where you find clues, solve mysteries and win prizes. The prizes page tells me there’s $100,000 worth of prizes to win in New Zealand alone! That’s a lot!
Mr Riordan’s book, The Maze of Bones, is on the catalogue now. You can reserve it, read it, find the clue and begin the hunt! Cool.
* 39 Clues books by other writers like Gordon Korman and Peter Lerangis will be coming soon too.
Sam can’t read. Caroline can. To Sam the words are just like spiders with thin legs that move accross the page. Together Caroline and Sam set out to discover who Sam really is and where he belongs… Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff is about an unlikey friendship between a girl who can’t stop reading and a boy who can’t begin.
This week is Conservation Week. Cummings Park Library in Ngaio is having a special after school session on Friday the 12th. They will have Juliet Cooke there from 3.30-4.00pm to tell us all about Kiwi Kids Conservation Club, as well as a colouring-in competition with spot prizes. So if you’re aged between 5 and 12 years old make sure you get down there to help celebrate!
Hey stories@7 people, hope you enjoyed your hot chocolate! October’s stories@7 will be Top Secret Stories (mysteries and spies and things) so make sure you’re there! Friday 3 October, starting at 7pm (of course!).
We have heaps of alphabet books in the library and some of them are quite cool. Margaret Atwood likes alliteration (using words with the same first letters – like Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, for example), and then there’s my personal favourite at the moment, The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman (who wrote The Wolves in the Walls). Neil Gaiman really likes spooky things, so his alphabet books is a bit spooky: S is for skull (and spooky!), H is for “help me!”, F is for fear and E is for evil… and the best thing for slightly older readers is the deliberate mistake that’s in the book; see if you can spot it!
The latest instalment in the life and times of Artemis Fowl – teenage genius, criminal mastermind, and the bane of Holly Short’s life (although what would she do without him?) – Artemis Fowl and the time paradox is here and this time he’s met his match… someone just as clever, just as wicked, just as cunning…
Are you an Artemis Fowl fan? If you are and you’ve read it, let us know what you think.
Ancient Egypt had armies and soldiers. Pharaohs sent armies to areas such as Palestine, Nubia and Syria. Armies had infantry and chariot troops. Chariots were made of wood, and were manned by two soldiers, and pulled by two horses. Archers would fire arrows at the enemy from chariots.
Egyptians also fought with the axe, which was a popular weapon all over the Middle East. Daggers were effective weapons as well. Egyptian daggers had fine, tapered copper blades decorated with stripes.
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