Library
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Recommended Series Reads for Boys
Captain Underpants Jack Stalwart
Zac Power Goosebumps
Geronimo Stilton Dragon Knight
39 Clues Big Nate
Star Wars Battle Boy
Boy vs Beast Freak Street
My Story Horrible Histories
Bionicle Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Lego City/Ninjago Fly Guy
Lucky Luke, Asterix, The Adventures of Tintin
Books by Morris Gleitzman, Andy Griffiths, Paul Jennings, Lois Sachar, Garth
Nix, Willard Price, David Walliams
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Recommended Series Books for Girls
Clarice Bean My Story
Go Girl Rainbow Magic
Saddle Club Ally’s World
Nathalia Buttface Animal Ark
Rainbow Magic Dear Dumb Diary
Billie B Brown Aussie Nibbles
Kiwi Bites
Books by Jacqueline Wilson, Anne Fine, Margaret Mahy, Beverley Cleary
Waitakere Mobile Library
The Mobile Library will be visiting school every 2nd week during 2016 – Please check the school newsletter for visit dates/times.
Any children who are members of the Waitakere/Auckland Library will be allowed to visit the bus and borrow books (they do not have to bring their Library Card). Parents and families are also welcome to visit the Mobile
Library. Library Books borrowed from the Mobile Library may be returned Membership to Auckland Public Libraries is free (there are 8 Libraries in the West Auckland area) - join your whole family and make a visit to the
library part of your weekly routine
Scholastic Books
A Scholastic leaflet will be sent home with your child twice a term. Scholastic
Books have a huge range of reasonably priced books for Preschool to Intermediate reading age. If you wish to purchase any items please complete the order form and return to school by the due date (last day for orders will be
in the School newsletter). Payment may be made by cash/cheque/visa or EFTPOS.
Parents Library
We now have a small collection of books in our Parents Library. A number of these books have been written by popular NZ authors such as Nigel Latta, Celia Lashlie, Ian Grant and many others. These books have been especially written for parents and offer practical advice for common parenting problems such as – understanding ADHD, encouraging your child to enjoy reading, toddler taming, enjoying parenting and advice for single parents. Please email paulinem@sunnyvale.school.nz if you would like to borrow or look at any books from the Parents Library.
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Help your child to become a Reader
Reading is a basic life skill, essential for academic success and job opportunities, as well as giving us vocabulary, stories, ideas, information.
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Children read more when they have
- a wide variety of books comics and magazines around them that they can
- time to read, build it into your routine, before school, after school, at bedtime
- membership to Auckland Public Libraries is free (there are 8 Libraries in the West Auckland area) - join your whole family and make a visit to the library part of your weekly routine.
Our library is temporarily closed until further notice due to renovations.
Welcome back to Sunnyvale Library for 2018. My name is Mrs Murray and I have had the pleasure of being the Librarian at Sunnyvale School for more than 15 years. I hope I can encourage your child to love books and reading.
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Our school library has a wonderful collection of both Fiction and Nonfiction books and I sure we will have something to interest your child.
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Each class visits the library once a week to borrow books and learn basic library skills. Year 5/6 pupils may borrow 2 books at a time, 1/2/3/4 may Books are issued for two weeks and must be taken to and from school in your child’s Book Bag or a plastic bag.